| Acronym | Meaning |
| AQCDS | Air Quality Criteria Documents |
| WAS | Waste Activated Sludge |
| MM | Misch Metal |
| AEMA | Auger Electron Microanalysis |
| LASP | Laboratory For Atmospheric And Space Physics |
| SLS | Sodium Lauryl Sulfate |
| ECAO | Environmental Criteria And Assessment Office |
| PLM | Polarized-light Microscopy |
| CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
| ECS-P | Energy-corrected Sudden-polynomial (scaling Law) |