| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOCLE | Ball-on Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator |
| CNIE | Committee For The National Institute For The Environment |
| RHFS | Restricted Hartree-Fock-Slater |
| RADREM | Radioactivity Research And Environmental Monitoring Committee |
| NOM | Natural Organic Matter |
| IAS | Isobaric Analog States |
| VEH | Valence Effective Hamiltonian Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| DEF | Dose Effect Factor |
| SAW | Submerged Arc Welding |
| SXRFM | Synchrotron X-ray-fluorescence Microprobe |