| Acronym | Meaning |
| GPR | Ground-penetrating Radar |
| NTI | National Toxics Inventory |
| SZA | Solar Zenith Angle |
| CLTVD | Controlled Low-temperature Vacuum Dehydration |
| APO | Aq.-phase Oxidn. |
| APPH | Auger Peak To Peak Height |
| NOD | Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand |
| REAPDOR | Rotational-echo Adiabatic-passage Double-resonance |
| PXD | Powder X-ray Diffraction |
| QMS | Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry |