| Acronym | Meaning |
| VX | O-ethyl-S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphosphonothiolate |
| EPCE | Enhanced Pre-coat Engineering |
| BAMGAR | Barium Magnesium Germanate Garnet |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| CELS | Characteristic Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| SETB | Semiempirical Tight Binding |
| EXGEM | Extended Geminal (model Correlated Wave Function) |
| SPEED | Selective Potentiostatic Etching By Electrolytic Dissolution |
| ZVI | Zero-valent Iron |
| ICSC | International Chemical Safety Card |