| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute For Research In Environmental Sciences |
| SPLP | Synthetic Pptn. Leaching Procedure |
| FI | Field Ionization |
| GAIN | Global Agricultural Information Network |
| HECD | Hall Electrolytic Conductivity Detector |
| LOCI | Luminescence Oxygen Channeling Immunoassay |
| FOA | Frozen Orbital Approximation |
| CPA | Chirped Pulse Amplification |
| RWA | Rotating Wave Approximation |
| MWP | Moving Wave Packet (model For Mol. Scattering) |