| Acronym | Meaning |
| POC | Point Of Compliance |
| STEP | Science And Technology For Environmental Protection |
| GEMMA | Gas-phase Electrophoretic Mobility Molecular Analysis |
| STP | Sewage Treatment Plant |
| ESTEC | European Space Research And Technology Centre |
| SARIS | Scattering And Recoiling Imaging Spectrometry |
| HIT | Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia |
| NTI | National Toxics Inventory |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |
| TDPAD | Time Differential Perturbed Angular Distribution |