| Acronym | Meaning |
| BRFI | Brewing Research Foundation International |
| HFO | Hydrous Ferric Oxide |
| AFIS | Advanced Fiber Information System |
| HRT | Hydraulic Retention Time |
| APFO | Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate |
| EB | Ethyl Benzene |
| DESPOT | Driven-equilibrium Single-pulse Observation Of T1 |
| BMSC | Bone Marrow Stromal Cell |
| SIDP | Sputter Ion Depth Profiling |
| GALE | Genesis Of Atlantic Lows Experiment |