| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIC | Dissolved Inorganic Carbon |
| ELOG | Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth |
| HKF | Helgeson-Kirkham-Flowers (equation Of State) |
| ELSA | Emergency Level Scale Assessment |
| FONDA | First-order Nondegenerate Adiabatic (theory For Electron-mol. Inelastic Scattering) |
| RCA | Ricinus Communis Agglutinin |
| LAEC | Lowest Achievable Emission Rate |
| AS | Air Stripping |
| PFPB | Point-feed Prebaked [in Al Refining] |
| LOVA | Lowest-order Variational Approxn. (for Electron-phonon Interactions In Metals) |