| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRI | Industrial Research Institute |
| CBEC | Concentration-based Exemption Criteria |
| APEG | Alkaline Polyethylene Glycolate |
| EMAT | Effluent Microtox Acute Toxicity |
| IMOM | Iterative Method Of Maximum Overlap |
| HEIR | High Energy Ion Recoil |
| MCY | Matsuoka-Clementi-Yoshimine (potential Function) |
| F/M | Food To Microorganism Ratio |
| NLLSQ | Nonlinear Least Squares |
| ADCI | American Die Casting Institute |