| Acronym | Meaning |
| VPO | Vapor Pressure Osmometry |
| DRIFT | Diffuse Reflectance IR Fourier Transform |
| BNFL | British Nuclear Fuels Laboratory |
| PMDA | Pyromellitic Dianhydride |
| TDVP | Time-dependent Variational Principle (in Scattering Calcns.) |
| VMD | Vector Meson Dominance |
| AHR | Airway Hyperresponsiveness |
| CISP | Canadian Indoor Source Profile |
| DEM | Discrete Element Method |
| MRF | Material Recovery Facility |