| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
| WAS | Whole Air Sampler |
| GRCDA | Government Refuse Collection And Disposal Association |
| PWBE | Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Exchange |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| VCDT | Vienna Canyon Diablo Troilite |
| QECISDTQ | Quadratic Size-extensive CISDTQ |
| EFFF | Electric Field-flow Fractionation |
| CCDIS | Charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer |
| SPR | Surface Plasmon Resonance |