| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIFT | Selected Ion Flow Tube |
| MIC | Methyl Isocyanate |
| APL | Alternative Pollutant Limits |
| VSTA | Virus-Serum-Toxin Act |
| WCDF | Worse Case Dilution Factor (in Receiving Water) |
| WCOT | Wall Coated Open Tubular Columns |
| DQW | Double Quantum Well |
| CPST | Classical Perturbation Scattering Theory |
| WQMSGL | Water Quality Modeling System For The Great Lakes |
| RFGE | Rotating-field Gel Electrophoresis |