| Acronym | Meaning |
| NETAC | National Effluent Toxicity Assessment Center |
| CAU | Carbon Adsorption Unit |
| QRA | Quantitative Risk Assessment |
| FIP | Flow Injection Potentiometry |
| COBRAS | Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite |
| SSB | Semiclassical Sudden Born (approxn. In Ion-atom Collisions) |
| CCR | Complex Coordinate Rotation (method For Calcns. Of Resonances In Scattering) |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (US EPA) |
| ICTAC | International Confederation For Thermal Analysis And Calorimetry |
| LEAFS | Laser-Excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry |