| Acronym | Meaning |
| HREM | High-resolution Electron Microscopy |
| PINS | Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy |
| CTOF | Charge Time-of-Flight Spectrometer |
| DF | Density Functional Formalism |
| DDP | Didecyl Phthalate |
| ATR | Attenuated Total Reflectance |
| OLS | Ordinary Least Squares |
| HSC | Health And Safety Commission (UK) |
| MXRF | Micro-beam X-ray Fluorescence |
| MLCPA | Maximum Likelihood Principal Component Analysis |