| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPSRC | (United Kingdom) Engineering And Phys. Sciences Research Council |
| NLPS | Nonreactive |
| CED | Cohesive Energy Density |
| CSAAS | Continuum Source Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| BICMOS | Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| RECLAIM | Regional Clean Air Incentives Market |
| TEQ | Toxicity Equivalent |
| LEELS | Low Energy Electron Loss Spectroscopy |
| MCI | Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| MIOSA | Modified (rotational) Infinite Order Sudden Approxn. |