| Acronym | Meaning |
| AHERA | Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act |
| RT | Reverse Transcriptase |
| RIBE | Reactive Ion Beam Etching |
| MEBES | Micro-electron Beam Evaporation Source |
| QCCA | Quasiclassical Close-coupling Approximation |
| TRPH | Total Recoverable Petroleum Hydrocarbons |
| CSIA | Compd.-specific Isotope Anal. |
| ACIMS | Active Chemical Ionization Mass Spectroscopy |
| HAO | Hybrid Atomic Orbital |
| BOE | Buffered Oxide Etch |