| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMT | Effective Mass Theory (in Electronic Wave Functions Calcn.) |
| COSAC | Cometary Sampling And Composition |
| LPFF | Laser Photolysis Fragment Fluorescence |
| BO | Born Oppenheimer |
| EIG | Electrostatic Ion Guide |
| RADREM | Radioactivity Research And Environmental Monitoring Committee |
| CCFET | Capacitively Controlled Field Effect Transistor |
| TIGR | The Institute For Genomic Research |
| NPD | Normal Photoelectron Diffraction |
| GRI | Gas Research Institute |