| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIAID | National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases |
| RMA | Rocky Mountain Arsenal (Colorado) |
| SDA | Strand Displacement Amplification |
| STORET | Storage And Retrieval Of U.S. Waterways Parametric Data |
| HRC | Rockwell Hardness (C Scale) |
| ESD | Electron-stimulated Desorption |
| SAM1 | Semi-ab Initio Model1 |
| ICM | Injection Compression Molding |
| HFB SCF RPA | Hartree Fock Bogolyubov SCF Random Phase Approximation |
| CDW-IA | Continuum Distorted Wave-impulse Approxn. |