| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSM | US Office Of Surface Mining Reclamation And Enforcement |
| PMN | Lead Magnesium Niobate |
| BMSC | Bone Marrow Stromal Cell |
| MOS | Margin Of Safety |
| SOEH | Scaled One-electron Hamiltonian (in SCF Calcns. On Mols.) |
| HDAC | Histone Deacetylase |
| ICE | Interleukin 1beta-converting Enzyme |
| SCAN | Silica-coated Aluminum Nitride |
| CASE | Computer Assisted Structure Elucidation |
| LSIMS | Liquid Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |