| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPR | Chemically Perturbed Region |
| HIERD | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection |
| SSE | Spinless Salpeter Equation |
| COPC | Contaminants Of Potential Concern |
| QCA | Quantum-dot Cellular Automata |
| ESC | Embryonic Stem Cell |
| APL | Alternative Pollutant Limits |
| SNIFTIRS | Subtractively Normalized Interfacial Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy |
| PTV | Programmed Temp. Vaporizing |
| MF | Membrane Filtration |