| Acronym | Meaning |
| LEU | Low Enrichment Uranium |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| IPF | Inorg. Polymer Flocculant |
| CI | Chemical Ionization |
| SCMFT | Self-consistent Mean-field Theory |
| FQO | Forced Quantum Oscillator Method |
| FIT | Field Investigation Team (US EPA) |
| DMC | Double Metal Cyanide |
| SCCP | Strong-coupling Correspondence Principle |
| DF-OCE | Dirac-Fock One-center Expansion |