| Acronym | Meaning |
| CUSMAP | Conterminous United States Mineral Assessment Program |
| RFA | RCRA Facility Assessment |
| NMRD | Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion |
| CMB | Core Mantle Boundary |
| ITS | Internal Transcribed Spacer |
| PHF | Projected Hartree Fock |
| LTR | Long Terminal Repeat |
| LPEE | Liquid Phase Electroepitaxy |
| OHFS | Optimized Hartree-Fock-Slater |
| STPF | Stabilized-temperature Platform Furnace |