| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBEC | Concentration-based Exemption Criteria |
| ALI | Annual Limit On Intake |
| SPACE | Spatial And Chemical Shift-encoded Excitation |
| VICIM | Virtual Institute For Chemometrics And Industrial Metrology |
| CCBA | Coupled-channel Born Approximation |
| PCF | Plasma Centrifugal Furnace |
| SLT | Standard Leaching Test |
| FANES | Furnace Atomization Non-thermal Emission Spectrometry |
| TPRS | Temperature Programmed Reaction Spectrometry |
| IEM | Immunoelectron Microscopy |