| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
| NSR | Normalized Stoichiometric Ratio |
| FFM | Finite Field Method (in Mol. Polarizabilities Calcns.) |
| AMESA | Adsorption Method For Sampling Of Dioxins |
| STN | Scientific And Technical Information Network |
| SIDP | Sputter Ion Depth Profiling |
| OLSR | Ordinary Least Squares Regression |
| BIF | Banded Iron-formation |
| DADI | Direct Analysis Of Daughter Ions |
| LC-ESI-MS/MS | Liq. Chromatog.-electrospray Ionization-tandem Mass Spectrometry |