| Acronym | Meaning |
| XEAPS | X-ray Excited Electron Appearance Potential Spectroscopy |
| VC | Vital Capacity (lung Function) |
| EAC | Environmental Assisted Cracking |
| ABEP | Acetate Buffer Extraction Procedure |
| VSS | Volatile Suspended Solids |
| PIAS | Photon-counting Image Acquisition System |
| FOLZ | First-order Laue Zone |
| LSI | Large-scale Integration |
| CD ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| EMMA | End-member Mixing Analysis |