| Acronym | Meaning |
| COHMED | Cooperative Hazardous Materials Enforcement Development Program |
| BATSE | Burst And Transient Source Experiment |
| VES | Vapor Extraction System |
| ECTDMS | Electrochemical Thermal Desorption Mass Spectroscopy |
| MVO | Modified Virtual Orbital |
| SPIO | Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide |
| LCST | Lower Critical Solution Temperature |
| QRIOSA | Quantum Reactive Infinite Order Sudden Approxn. |
| ECDIN | Environmental Chemicals Data And Information Network |
| ESRF | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility |