| Acronym | Meaning |
| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
| IAH | International Association Hydrogeologists |
| HIERD | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection |
| BSEM | Back Scattering Electron Microscopy |
| BSCO | Break Specific Carbon Monoxide |
| ECP | Effective Core Potential Approxn.(in Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
| ACSV | Adsorptive Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry |
| RPE | Retinal Pigment Epithelium |
| MOCVD | Metal Org. Chem. Vapor Deposition |
| CB1 | Corrected First Born (perturbation Theory In Atom-ion Collisions) |