| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPTOC | Nonpurgeable Total Organic Carbon |
| AGAL | Australian Government Analytical Laboratories |
| ASNOM | Aperture Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| DBE | Deep Basin Experiment |
| CARS | Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy |
| TNFR | Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor |
| SMART | System Integrated Modular Advanced ReacTor |
| PDB | Peedee Belemnite |
| LOQ | Limit Of Quantitation |
| MBR | Mobil Benzene Reduction [process] |