| Acronym | Meaning |
| BFS | Blast Furnace Slag |
| CAPS | 3-(cyclohexylamino)-1-propanesulfonic Acid |
| GCO | General Coupling Operator (in Calcns. Of Vector Coupling For Atoms And Ions) |
| DAVES | Desorption And Vapor Extraction System |
| CRIB | Computerized Resources Information Bank |
| LAC | Liquid Adsorption Chromatography |
| ECRH | Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating |
| SINDO | Symmetrically Orthogonalized Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| POEM | Physical Oceanography Of The Eastern Mediterranean |
| PIRAS | Polarized Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy |