| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCL | Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List |
| OSWER | Office Of Solid Waste And Emergency Response (USEPA) |
| IESS | Inelastic Electron Scattering Spectroscopy |
| PE | Population Equivalent (in Wastewater Treatment) |
| PCEM | Point-charge Electrostatic Model |
| LSM | Laser Scanning Microscopy |
| FAOS | Fluorescent Activated Organelle Sorting |
| ICP-OES | Inductively Coupled Plasma-optical Emission Spectroscopy |
| CASSCF-CCI | Complete Active Space Self-consistent Field-contracted CI |
| QHE | Quantum Hall Effect |