| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSSP | Solid-state Shear Pulverization |
| FBA | Fluidized Bed Afterburner |
| SHAPM | Shear Horizontal Acoustic Plate Mode |
| LFC | Loss-free Counting |
| LREE | Light Rare Earth Element(s) |
| ERDA | Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
| CBLM | Cluster-bethe-lattice Method (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Crystals) |
| MNDO | Modified Neglect Of Diatomic Overlap |
| LGFSTF | Liquefied Gaseous Fuels Spill Test Facility (DOE Mercury |
| ICAPES | Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Emission Spectrometry |