| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIMPEDS | Safety In Mines Personal Dust Sampler |
| GMA | Glycidyl Methacrylate |
| DTDA | Differential Thermal Desorption Analysis |
| PSA-CCSD | Partially Spin Adapted-CCSD |
| MPF | Maturation-promoting Factor |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronograph |
| ETS | Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| APYS | Auger-electron Partial Yield Spectroscopy |
| SDC | Samaria-doped Ceria |
| MNOS | Metal-nitride Oxide Semiconductor |