| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act |
| PAT | Proficiency Analytical Testing (NIOSH) |
| PGSE | Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo |
| IRPTC | International Register Of Potentially Toxic Chemicals |
| DBL | Diffusive Boundary Layer |
| ACT | Activated Clotting Time |
| VFOT | Variant Fock Operator Technique |
| OSIRIS | Optical Spectrograph And IR Imaging System |
| DOD | Dissolved Oxygen Deficit |
| CS | Chemical Shift |