| Acronym | Meaning |
| HAZMAT | Hazardous Materials |
| SML | Surface Microlayer |
| WSOEA | Wallace Second-order Eikonal Approximation |
| ETS | Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| TNRCC | Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission |
| AAQS | Ambient Air Quality Standard (USEPA) |
| EESI | Environment And Energy Study Institute |
| OHD | Optical Heterodyne Detection |
| ASAXS | Anomalous Small-angle X-ray Scattering |
| BMSC | Bone Marrow Stromal Cell |