| Acronym | Meaning |
| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
| VTST | Variational Transition-state Theory |
| DETOCSY | Diffusion Edited Total Correlation Spectroscopy |
| ETU | Ethylene Thiourea (carcinogen |
| PAS | Positron Annihilation Spectrometry |
| PSG | Phosphosilicate Glass |
| DWBC | Deep Western Boundary Current |
| SAFIR | Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory |
| MCPP | (+/-)-2-(4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)propionic Acid (REG: 7085190) |
| SFRI | Sludge Filtration Resistance Index |