| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBH | Schottky-barrier Height |
| OECD/SIDS | Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Developments Screening Information Data Sets |
| SHAPE | Simulation Of Human Activity And Pollution Exposure |
| FDM | Finite-difference Method |
| MUCA | Molecular Unit Cell Approxn. |
| MICSPOMS | Metal Island Coated Swelling Polymer Over Mirror System |
| ACGCSA | Adiabatic Capture Global Centrifugal Sudden Approximation |
| XAES | X-ray Excited Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| SGCR | Subcommittee Global Change Research |
| WHAM | Windermere Humic Aq. Acid Model |