| Acronym | Meaning |
| BTCA | Best Technology Currently Available |
| EGRIS | Emissive Gamma-ray Imaging And Spectroscopy |
| CBEC | Concentration-based Exemption Criteria |
| MTF | Multiple Tube Fermentation |
| EPV | Exclusion-principle Violating |
| EWS | Engineering Workstation |
| NHO | Natural Hybrid Orbital |
| TOC | Total Organic Carbon |
| LEI | Laser Enhanced Ionization |
| PAM | Periodic Anderson Model |