| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERDEC | U.S. Army Edgewood Research |
| UBT | Urea Breath Test |
| HESS | High Energy Stereoscopic System |
| SVE | Selected Valence Electron Model |
| ZPC | Zero Point Of Charge |
| AMS | Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
| QCD | Quantum Chromodynamics |
| ADOM | Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution) |
| DRAWS | Dipolar Recoupling With A Windowless Sequence |
| PSID | Photon Stimulated Ion Desorption |