| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAI | Conodont Alteration Index |
| PBZN | Peroxybenzoyl Nitrate |
| NELAP | National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program |
| EMPPL | Effluent Monitoring Priority Pollutants List |
| CLTVD | Controlled Low-temperature Vacuum Dehydration |
| CEEC | Capillary Electrophoresis/electrochemistry |
| MAMA | Multianode Microchannel Arrays |
| LAER | Lowest Achievable Emission Rate |
| FDTD | Finite-difference Time-domain |
| VDRE | Vitamin D-responsive Element |