| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALPS | Airborne Laser Polarization Sensor |
| MIDA | Mass Isotopomer Distribution Analysis |
| ICP/MS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry |
| CCDZP | Correlation-consistent Double-zeta (plus) Polarization (basis Set) |
| APD | Air Particulate Detector |
| PTS | Position-tagged Spectroscopy |
| OIG | Office Of Inspector General |
| STEM | Scaled Taylor Exponential Model |
| VACE | Vacancy Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis |
| MC | Mclean-Chandler Basis Set |