| Acronym | Meaning |
| IEF | Isoelectric Focusing |
| SSSA | Soil Science Society Of America |
| MBPT(2)-GF | Second-order Many-body Perturbation Theory-green Function |
| GDA | Glow Discharge Atomization (for Atomic Absorption Spectrometry) |
| HDV | Hepatitis Delta Virus |
| ARCS | Assessment And Remediation Of Contaminated Sediments |
| DCP-OES | Direct Coupled Plasma-optical Emission Spectroscopy |
| QHA | Quasi-harmonic Approxn. (in Intramol. Vibrational Relaxation) |
| MLVSS | Mixed Liquor Volatile Suspended Solids |
| FZP | Fresnel Zone Plate |