| Acronym | Meaning |
| NASC | North American Shale Composite |
| GSMBE | Gas Source Molecular-beam Epitaxy |
| IDSRS | Ionization-detected Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy |
| ECD | Environmental Cleanup Division |
| ELLPAT | Environmental Lead Laboratory Proficiency Analytical Testing |
| EEPROM | Elec. Erasable-programmable Read-only Memory |
| FCC | Food Chemicals Codex |
| MEIS | Medium Energy Ion Scattering |
| DTC | Differential Thermal Calorimetry |
| TMA | Transcription-mediated Amplification |