| Acronym | Meaning |
| GLSL | Green Light Stimulated Luminescence |
| PPT | Parts Per Trillion |
| CTTS | Charge Transfer To Solvent |
| DAP | Distributed Array Processor |
| DAD | Diode Array Detector |
| DELFIA | Dissociation-enhanced Lanthanide Fluoroimmunoassay |
| CRS | Coordinate-representation Sudden (decoupling Method For Mol. Inelastic Collisions) |
| PCS | Photon Correlation Spectroscopy |
| HVIO | High Volume Industrial Organic |
| NADW | North Atlantic Deep Water |