| Acronym | Meaning |
| TDCS | Total Dissolved And Colloidal Solids |
| OSWV | Osteryoung Square Wave Voltammetry |
| RCA | Ricinus Communis Agglutinin |
| ELISA | Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| IEM | Immunoelectron Microscopy |
| TPSSIMS | Temperature Programmed Static Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |
| PA-FTIR | Photoacoustic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| WRITE | Waste Reduction Innovative Technology Evaluation (US EPA) |
| UTI | Urinary Trypsin Inhibitor |
| S-MPPT | Supermolecular Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Theory |