| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMII | Enriched Mantle Component 2 (of S. R. Hart |
| NIHHS | Notification Of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations (UK) |
| MCV | Mean Corpuscular Volume |
| OIB | Ocean Island Basalt |
| AESOP | Airborne Experiment To Study Ozone Production |
| LSP | Liquid-stabilized Plasma |
| HTP | Helical Twisting Power |
| PWBA-EX | Plane-wave Born Approxn. (with) Exchange |
| PREP | Plasma Rotating Electrode Process |
| CEPEX | Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment |