| Acronym | Meaning |
| VGO | Vacuum Gas Oil |
| OWPE | Office Waste Programs Enforcement |
| EMTS | Environmental Monitoring Testing Site |
| QMAR | Quantitative Migration-activity Relationship |
| RMPM | Renormalized Multicenter Potential Model (for Scattering) |
| PPGVB | Perfect Pairing Generalized Valence Bond (wave Function) |
| NNLO | Next-to-next-to-leading Order |
| IDOE | International Decade Of Ocean Exploration |
| AMTIC | Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center |
| DCASV | D.c. Anodic Stripping Voltammetry |