| Acronym | Meaning |
| EIL | Environmental Impairment Liability |
| TNRCC | Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission |
| MNSR | Miniature Neutron Source Reactor |
| UASB | Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket |
| CLSA | Closed Loop Stripping Analysis |
| FKN | Field-Koros-Noyes (mechanism) |
| SVP | Schwinger Variational Principle |
| PST | Porcine Somatotropin |
| NICE | Neutral Interstellar Composition Experiment |
| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism |