| Acronym | Meaning |
| NICS | Nucleus-independent Chemical Shifts |
| TALEST | Tandem Arrayed Ligation Of Expressed Sequence Tags |
| IRRAS | Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
| SAGE II | Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Expt. II |
| IRGL | Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group |
| MLPCA | Maximum Likelihood Principal Component Analysis |
| INAA | Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis |
| INDO/SP | Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap/spin Polarization |
| CALUX | Chemical-activated Luciferase Expression |
| NPM | Nonpolar Material |