| Acronym | Meaning |
| DWRD | Drinking Water Research Division (EPA) |
| SEGH | Society For Environmental Geochemistry And Health |
| IRIS | Imaging Of Radicals Interacting With Surfaces |
| QSBR | Quant. Structure-biodegrdn. Relationships |
| TRAP | Telomeric Repeat Amplification Protocol |
| PEL | Permissible Exposure Limit |
| HPCA | Hierarchical Principal Component Analysis |
| EDRS | Enforcement Document Retrieval System |
| HOSE | Harmonic Oscillator Stabilization Energy |
| CARE | Computed-aided Risk Evaluation |