| Acronym | Meaning |
| VCB-CPA | Virtual Crystal Bandwidth-coherent Potential Approxn. (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Alloys) |
| SPI | Society For The Plastics Industry |
| SMB | Simulated Moving Bed |
| HIRES | High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer |
| MIRAGE | Migration Of Radioisotopes In The Geosphere |
| CRREL | US Army Cold Regions Research And Engineering Laboratory |
| PPT-MCF | Pseudo-polarization Tensor-mutually Consistent Field ( For Mol. Interactions) |
| GDOES | Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometry |
| SQC | Sediment Quality Criteria |
| QAMS | Quality Assurance Management Staff (US EPA) |