| Acronym | Meaning |
| WSOC | Water-soluble Organic Carbon |
| AFA | Abstract Factor Anal. (statistics) |
| TFFF | Thermal Field Flow Fractionation |
| FMIR | Frustrated Multiple Internal Reflection |
| EIF | Electron Impact Fluorescence |
| CASS | Cyclic Activated Sludge System |
| ESCPM | Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| SDA | Strand Displacement Amplification |
| SD-MBPT | Single (and) Double (substituted States) Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| SWNT | Single-wall Nanotube |