| Acronym | Meaning |
| BAAQMD | Bay Area Air Quality Management District |
| HPSN | Hot-pressed Silicon Nitride |
| ADE | (thermal) Adsorption-desorption Equilibrium |
| CAICISS | Coaxial Impact Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy |
| PAW | Projector Augmented-wave [ab-initio Method] |
| DMRG | Density Matrix Renormalization Group (quantum Calcn. Method) |
| WSIA | Water Supply Improvement Association |
| PEMFC | Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell |
| HEIWIP | Heterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission |
| SEDM | State/EPA Data Management |