| Acronym | Meaning |
| NELAC | National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| GOODS | Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey |
| CIEEL | Chem. Initiated Electron Exchange Luminescence |
| VPDB | Vienna Peedee Belemnite |
| APAD | 3-acetylpyridine Adenine Dinucleotidepar |
| TOFD | Time Of Flight Diffraction |
| XHDPE | Cross-linked |
| FIT | Flow Injection Titration |
| HWIR | Hazardous Waste Identification Rule |