| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPR | Chemically Perturbed Region |
| NIGA | Neutron Induced Gamma Activity |
| SDA | Subsurface Disposal Area |
| BICMOS | Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| MIS | Metal-insulator-semiconductor (solar Cells) |
| BEI | Backscattered Electron Imaging |
| DWP | Dynamic Wet Pressure |
| WASP | Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| BIFL | Burst Integrated Fluorescence Lifetime |