| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMTIC | Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center |
| SIMR | Swedish Institute For Metals Research |
| THEES | Total Human Environmental Exposure Study |
| CERDA | Coincident Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
| CEPH | Centre D'Etudes Du Polymorphisme Humain |
| DSID | Direct Sample Insertion Device |
| MPY | Miles Per Year |
| HVIO | High Volume Industrial Organic |
| RVCM | Renormalized Virtual-crystal Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| CV | Core-valence Correlation |