| Acronym | Meaning |
| WERC | Waste-management Education & Research Consortium |
| AES | Atomic Emission Spectroscopy |
| CBDS | Carcinogenesis Bioassay Data System |
| HMSA | Hybrid Mean Spherical Approximation |
| ERP | Effective Refractory Period |
| SLS | Sequential Lateral Solidification |
| DPAV | Differential Pulse Adsorption Voltammetry |
| CSIR | Chemistry Software And Information Resources |
| PSS | Primary Sewage Sludge |
| PT2F | Second-order Perturbation Theory (with) Fock (matrix) |