| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAI | Conodont Alteration Index |
| NCSE | National Council For Science And The Environment |
| LCEC | Liquid Chromatography With Electrochemical Detection |
| QAR | Quality Assurance Reagent |
| ROG | Reactive Organic Gas |
| PIPN | Pseudo Interpenetrating Polymer Network |
| CISDT | CI With Single And Double And Triple Excitations |
| PC-BOSS | Particle Concentrator-Brigham Young University Organic Sampling System |
| SAR | Structure-Activity Relationship |
| BARITT | Barrier Injection Transient Time |