| Acronym | Meaning |
| FEG | Field Emission Gun |
| HHAP | Heavy Hydroaroms. From Petroleum |
| CDOC | Colored Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| AR | Attributive Risk |
| GLNPO | Great Lakes National Program Office |
| EPICA | European Project For Ice Coring In Antarctica |
| EXSY | Exchange Spectroscopy |
| SAGE | Soviet-American Gallium Experiment |
| MPA | Multipurpose Additive |
| ASRG | Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group |