| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACBS | Aqueous-ceramic Binding Suspension |
| HPIAC | High-performance Immunoaffinity Chromatography |
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste |
| PFOA | Perfluorooctanoic Acid |
| SAT | Sulfuric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol) |
| VHAP | Volatile Hazardous Air Pollutant |
| ROMP | Ring-opening Metathesis Polymerization |
| HMM | Half Molecule Model (for Electron Scattering By Molecules) |
| AOTF | Acousto-optic Tunable Filter |
| CDPF | Catalytic Diesel Particulate Filter |