| Acronym | Meaning |
| ESID | Environmental Statistics And Information Division |
| CMP | Chemical Measurement Process |
| ERDEC | U.S. Army Edgewood Research |
| CNDO | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| HRSEM | High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| CCGM | Cabrera-Celli-Goodman-Manson (at. Scattering Theory) |
| PLC | Preparative (thin) Layer Chromatography |
| ESPI | Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry |
| 2PPE | Two-photon Photoemission |
| PTGS | Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing |