| Acronym | Meaning |
| EDGAR | Emissions Database For Global Atm. Research |
| PRTR | Pollutant Release And Transfer Register |
| SDIO | Strategic Defense Initiative Organization |
| EHMI | Environmental Hazards Management Institute |
| DPV | Differential-pulse Voltammetry |
| XRMF | X-ray Microfluorescence |
| LICS | Laser-induced Continuum Structure |
| AEHA | Army Environmental Hygiene Agency |
| MDBK | Madin-Darby Bovine Kidney |
| CPPI | Cross-polarization-polarization-inversion [NMR] |