| Acronym | Meaning |
| NADA | New Animal Drug Application |
| MIEHM | Modified Iterative Extended Hueckel Method |
| PPMA | Parts Per Million Atomic |
| ATTF | Air Toxics Task Force |
| VU-CC | Valence Universal-coupled Cluster |
| EAA | Excitatory Amino Acid |
| IKES | Ion-kinetic-energy Spectroscopy |
| CCFL | Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp |
| IMMA | Ion Microprobe Mass Analysis |
| IMF | Initial Mass Function |