| Acronym | Meaning |
| AME | Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess |
| FAPES | Furnace Atomization Plasma Emission Spectrometry |
| PEPICO | Photoelectron-photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy |
| PHAS | Pollution Hazard Assessment System |
| IC | Ion Chromatography |
| RAM | Reference-system Average Mayer-function (in Perturbation Theory) |
| PARAFAC | Parallel Factor Analysis |
| FI | Fouling Index |
| TLS | Thermal Lens Spectrometry |
| IACS | International Annealed Copper Standard |