| Acronym | Meaning |
| HLPSA | Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act |
| PWHT | Post-weld Heat Treatment |
| SASS | Source Assessment Sampling System |
| MPF | Maturation-promoting Factor |
| NF-E1 | Nuclear Factor Erythroid 1 |
| CEMC | Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre |
| IBAE | Ion Beam Assisted Etching |
| ACR | Acute-Chronic Toxicity Ratio |
| PLM | Polarized-light Microscopy |
| STS | Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy |