| Acronym | Meaning |
| IMAGE | Imager For Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
| ERDA | US Energy Research And Development Administration |
| LSM | Liquid Surfactant Membrane |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
| ENR | Endogenous Nitrate Respiration |
| NDDO | Neglect Of Diatomic Differential Overlap |
| OCBSE | Orthogonality Constrained Basis Set Expansion Prodedure |
| LSE | Liquid/solid Extraction |
| IBS | Incomplete Basis Set |
| ADS | Accelerator Driven System |