| Acronym | Meaning |
| COASTS | Coastal Ocean Advanced Science And Technology Study (IOC Program) |
| EVE | Ethyl Vinyl Ether |
| BCR | Bureau Communitaire De Reference (of The CEE = Commission Of European Communities |
| NEIS | National Environmental Information Service |
| ISCLT | Industrial Source Complex Long Term (dispersion Model) |
| CP | Cellulose Propionate |
| MERD | Metal-enhanced Reductive Dehalogenation |
| CNLS | Complex Nonlinear Least Squares (data Fitting Method) |
| NHL | Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma |
| MRF | Municipal Recycle Facility |