| Acronym | Meaning |
| CMF | Clay Minerals File (of Digitized X-ray Diffraction Traces) |
| AACC | American Association Of Cereal Chemists |
| CSDW | Centrifugal Sudden (or Coupled States) Distorted Wave (methodfor Reactive Mol. Collisions) |
| SPA | Self-consistent Phonon Approximation |
| EPV | Exclusion-principle Violating |
| IOM | Institute Of Occupational Medicine |
| SOR | Surface Overflow Rate |
| CAALS | Consortium On Automated Analytical Laboratory Systems |
| BNF | Biological Nitrogen Fixation |
| DPM | Disintegrations Per Minutepar |