| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEEL | Community Emergency Exposure Level |
| RTK | Receptor Tyrosine Kinase |
| CXAES | Continuous X-ray-induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| CBOD | Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand |
| ISAST | Irreversible Sorption Affected Solute Transport [model] |
| EDAX | Energy Dispersive Analysis Of X-rays |
| DESY | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron |
| TPSR | Temp.-programmed Surface Reaction |
| ADMS | Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling System |
| IRPDS | Infrared Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy |