| Acronym | Meaning |
| RSKERL | Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory |
| HEPES | N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic Acid |
| BMS | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| ETBM | Empirical Tight-binding Method (in Electronic Structure Calcn.) |
| MEXH | Multiple-energy X-ray Holography |
| WET | Whole Effluent Toxicity |
| ANSTO | Australian Nuclear Science And Technology Organization |
| OLF | Overland Flow |
| SSRM | Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy |
| QCT-IEQMT | Quasiclassical Trajectory-internal Energy Quantum Mechanical Threshold |