| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCAF | Self-consistent Anisotropic Field |
| MAVRIQ | Model Of Analysis Of Volatiles And Residential Indoor-air Quality |
| OD | Order-Disorder (in Mineral Structure) |
| AEHS | Association For The Environmental Health Of Soils |
| AACC | American Association For Clinical Chemistry |
| TNF | Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha |
| CV-AFS | Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry |
| BCO | Bounded Crystal Orbital |
| NCE | New Chemical Entity |
| GIMS | Grazing Incidence Moessbauer Spectroscopy |