| Acronym | Meaning |
| HGCU | Hot-gas-cleanup Unit |
| MFS | Major Facilitator Superfamily |
| CIDA | Cometary Impact Dust Analyzer |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LSM | Laser Scanning Microscopy |
| MSMPR | Mixed-solution-mixed-product Removal |
| SSM | Synthetic Soil Matrix (US EPA) |
| 2PH TDA | Two-particle-hole Tamm-Dancoff Approximation (for Closed-shell |
| ALS | Acetolactate Synthase |
| PAGIF | Polyacrylamide Gel Isoelectric Focusing |