| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLAD | Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition |
| CHEMTREC | Chemical Transportation Emergency Center |
| REPELS | Reemitted Positron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| ODFS | Optimized Dirac-Fock-Slater |
| AOD | Argon Oxygen Decarburization |
| PAO | Polarized Atomic Orbital |
| MTCT | Mother-to-child Transmission |
| TDCS | Total Dissolved And Colloidal Solids |
| ASPET | American Society For Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics |
| AIC | Air Information Center |