| Acronym | Meaning |
| AEHA | Army Environmental Hygiene Agency |
| HEA | 2-hydroxyethyl Acrylate |
| MDLC | Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography |
| NIGMS | National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH) |
| BLEVE | Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion |
| MIG | Metal Inert Gas (welding) |
| ECAP | Equal Channel Angular Pressing |
| HTD | Hancock-Truhlar-Dykstra (potential Energy Surface) |
| THFA | Target Hartree-Fock Approximation |
| BIA | Batch Injection Analysis |