| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEIC | National Enforcement Investigations Center |
| TPO | Temperature-programmed Oxidiation |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| GSMBE | Gas Source Molecular-beam Epitaxy |
| TOA | Thermooptical Analysis |
| VEGF | Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor |
| NDB | Nucleic Acid Database |
| ILAC | International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation |
| SAGE II | Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Expt. II |
| ISC-PEM-MO | Iterative Self-consistent Partition Of Energy Method And MO Formalism |