| Acronym | Meaning |
| BLM | Bureau Of Land Management |
| SDOSS | Sodium Dioctylsulfosuccinate |
| RVS-SCF | Reduced Variational Space-self-consistent Field (in Quantum Calcns. On Hydrogen Bonding) |
| DI | Direct Injection (engine; Diesel) |
| RAS | Routine Analytical Services |
| PLC | Preparative (thin) Layer Chromatography |
| VOC | Viable Organism Count |
| ZFS | Zero-field Splitting |
| SSCPA | Single-site Coherent-potential Approximation |
| TDM | Truncated Diagonalization Method |