| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPM | Counts Per Minute |
| NOES | National Occupational Exposures Survey |
| SC-2D | State-correlated Two-dimensional (NMR Spectroscopy) |
| AATSR | Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
| IHSS | International Humic Substances Society |
| MSFA | Monosegmented Flow Analysis |
| SGPT | Serum Glutamic-pyruvic Transaminase |
| PPBA | Plane-wave Plane-wave Born Approximation |
| ERS | Elastic Recoil Spectrometry |
| WCDF | Worse Case Dilution Factor (in Receiving Water) |