| Acronym | Meaning |
| SICP | Sealed Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| CPW | Coplanar Waveguide |
| CSA | Centrifugal Sudden Approxn. (in Scattering Calcns.) |
| MRE | Metal Responsive Element |
| NOX | Nitrogen Oxides |
| GLORIA | Gold-labeled, Optically Read, Rapid Immunoassay |
| ACR | Acute-Chronic Toxicity Ratio |
| SPECM | Scanning Photoelectrochemical And Electrochemical Microscopy |
| RSCF | Relativistic Self-consistent Field |
| LAKE | Clean Lakes Database (accessible Through OLS) |