| Acronym | Meaning |
| FQPA | Food Quality Protection Act |
| FAS | Flame Absorption Spectroscopy |
| EMIT | Enzyme-multiplied Immunoassay Technique |
| LITD | Lased Induced Thermal Desorption |
| HIRBS | Heavy-ion Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| MEPC | Marine Environment Protection Committee |
| QCA | Quasicrystalline Approximation |
| CHEMATA | Chem. Mechanism Adaptation To Tropospheric Applications |
| BOCLE | Ball-on Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator |
| AOCI | Airborne Ocean Color Imager |