| Acronym | Meaning |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| ADPT | Auger Depth Profiling Technique |
| UAPS | Utility Acid Precipitation Study |
| EINECS | European Inventory Of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances |
| EFOCS | Evanescent Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors |
| COC | Cyclic Olefin Copolymers |
| ISVM | Iterative Schwinger Variational Method |
| RFID | Radio-frequency Identification |
| LSV | Linear Sweep Voltammetry |
| BOSS | Brigham Young University Organic Sampling System |