| Acronym | Meaning |
| CONTOUR | Comet Nucleus Tour |
| CIA | Chemical Industries Association |
| ACSV | Adsorptive Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry |
| ODC | Optimized Double Configuration |
| GOMS | Gulf Of Mexico Seawater |
| AF | Atomic Fluorescence |
| RDEQ | Reduced Dimensionality Exact Quantum (method For Reactive Scattering) |
| EGR | Exhaust Gas Recirculation |
| CSAAS | Continuum Source Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| MERT | Modified Effective-range Theory (for Electron-mol. Scattering) |