| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADS | Accelerator Driven System |
| NSE | Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation |
| UHE | Ultra-high Energy |
| EBIT | Electron Beam Ion Trap |
| OHEA | Office Of Health And Environmental Assessment (USEPA) |
| LSCM | Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy |
| CPWR | Coupled Plasmon-waveguide Resonance |
| IRGL | Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group |
| FFM | Finite Field Method (in Mol. Polarizabilities Calcns.) |
| U.S.C. | United States Code |