| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPTC | Extraction Procedure Toxicity Characteristic |
| CHEF | Contour-clamped Homogeneous Field Electrophoresis |
| GIRM | Generalized Internal Reference Method |
| SNIFTIRS | Subtractively Normalized Interfacial Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy |
| AR | Angle Resolved (technique Prefix) |
| INDO | Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| WIC | Washington Information Center |
| HMPAM | Hydrophobically Modified Polyacrylamide |
| SIC | Standard Industrial Classification |
| ABLE | Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment |