| Acronym | Meaning |
| HMW | High Molecular Weight |
| SCEPM | Self-consistent Empirical Pseudopotential Method |
| VLE | Vapor-liquid Equilibrium |
| AOTS | Acoustic Optic Tunable Scanning |
| SLMTO | Surface Linear (combination) Of Muffin-tin Orbitals |
| SWTR | Surface Water Treatment Rule |
| HMPGI | Hybrid Multiple-prism Grazing-incidence |
| PSMS | Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry |
| SEDM | Selective Excitation Double Moessbauer |
| NRD | Natural Resource Damage |