| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMT | Surface Mount Technology |
| WTQA | Waste Testing And Quality Assurance |
| MIPAES | Microwave-induced Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry |
| DCAD | Dietary Cation-anion Difference |
| SHAPE | Simulation Of Human Activity And Pollution Exposure |
| FMM | Fast Multipole Method (algorithm For Coulomb Interactions Among Charge Distributions) |
| CRDL | Contract Required Detection Limit(s) |
| SAES | State Agricultural Experiment Stations |
| CPST | Classical Perturbation Scattering Theory |
| COSAC | Cometary Sampling And Composition |