| Acronym | Meaning |
| AQMWA | Air Quality And Waste Management Association |
| DEA | Dissociative Electron Attachment |
| PIRSS | Polarization IR Surface Spectroscopy |
| QMRE | Quantum Mechanical Resonance Energy |
| GITXRF | Glancing Incidence And Takeoff X-ray Fluorescence |
| SPLP | Synthetic Pptn. Leaching Procedure |
| TTO | Transient Tracers In The Ocean |
| ESA | Endangeded Species Act |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| SDLTS | Scanning Deep-level Transient Spectroscopy |