| Acronym | Meaning |
| IEPA | Illinois Environmental Protection Agency |
| LHPG | Laser-heated Pedestal Growth |
| SPS | Spark Plasma Sintering |
| RPC | Rotation Planar Chromatography |
| MED | Minimal Erythema Dose |
| WERL | Water Engineering Research Laboratory |
| HAZW | Hazardous Waste Collection Database (accessible Through OLS) |
| MMLV | Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus |
| ERIS | Electrostatic Reflex Ion Source |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |