| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBF | Simulated Body Fluid |
| RACM | Reasonably Available Control Measures |
| NPDWR | National Primary Drinking Water Regulations |
| MSMA | Murrell-Shaw-Musher-Amos Exchange Perturbation Theory |
| DISC | Death-inducing Signaling Complex |
| ESDN | Electron Stimulated Desorption Of Neutrals |
| TIE | Toxicity Identification Evaluation |
| LHM | Longuet-Higgins-Murrell Approximation |
| PDMEE | Primary-beam Diffraction Modulated Electron Emission |
| IDF | International Dairy Federation |