| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSM | US Office Of Surface Mining Reclamation And Enforcement |
| STLS | Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sjolander (generalized Random-phase Approxn. For Effective Pair Potentials Of Liq. Metals) |
| CCPA | Canadian Chemical Producers Association |
| LMC | Low-pressure Molding Compound |
| SRPL | Spatially Resolved Photoluminescence |
| ORPI | Off-resonance Proton Irradiation |
| VHDL | Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language |
| TIMS | Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| QMAR | Quantitative Migration-activity Relationship |
| LHEA | Laboratory For High Energy Astrophysics |