| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMF | Electromotive Force |
| AGARD | Advisory Group For Aerospace Research And Development |
| TSQMS | Triple-stage Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry |
| GIAXRD | Grazing Incidence Angle X-ray Diffraction |
| LARIS | Laser Ablation And Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy |
| HLAO | High-lying Antibonding Orbital |
| LCBO | Linear Combination Of Bonding Orbitals |
| TPDE | Temp.-programmed Decompn. |
| MARIS | Mississippi Automated Resource Information System |
| LOMU | Mantle Component With Low Pb-206/Pb-204 |