| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCSRP | National Contaminated Sites Remediation Program |
| PEPICO | Photoelectron-photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy |
| CTMAB | Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (cationic Surfactant) |
| HRADS | High Resolution Adsorption |
| RI | Remedial Investigation |
| POPCORN | Photo-Oxidant Formation By Plant Emitted Compds. And OH Radicals In North-Eastern Germany |
| SOMBT | Second-order Many-body Theory |
| MRCEPA | Multireference Coupled-electron-pair Approxn. |
| ROWPU | Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit |
| CBF | Correlated Basis Function |