| Acronym | Meaning |
| TID | Thermionic Ionization Detector |
| AS | Auger Spectroscopy |
| SAGE II | Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Expt. II |
| DAS | Direct Absorption Spectroscopy |
| THC | Total Hydrocarbon |
| QRAR | Quantitative Retention-activity Relationship |
| VLC | Visible Light-cured |
| EPS | Expanded Polystyrene |
| TZP | Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystal |
| ICP-AES | Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometry |