| Acronym | Meaning |
| CVM-CI | Constrained Variational Method-CI |
| XRFS | X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| DS | Dry Solids |
| SDS | Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate |
| HSBOW | Helical Spin Bond-order Wave |
| NLO | Nonlinear Optical |
| CAMEO | Computer Aided Management Of Emergency Operations |
| IDD | Insulin-dependent Diabetes |
| MBPT | Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| HPDM | Hybrid Plume Dispersion Model (air Quality) |