| Acronym | Meaning |
| PICLS | Photoionization Controlled-loss Spectroscopy |
| CFS | Coherent Forward Scattering |
| ATAS | Advance Technology Alert System |
| ESD | Electron-stimulated Desorption |
| POH | Purgeable Organic Halogen(s) |
| MIH | Method Of Intermediate Hamiltonians |
| DWT | Discrete Wavelet Transform |
| SCOP | Spherical Complex Optical Potential (in Quantum Calcn. On Mol. Scattering) |
| CRTA | Controlled Rate Thermal Analysis |
| LPC | Light Paraffin Conversion |