| Acronym | Meaning |
| AP | Appearance Potential |
| BABB | Back Arc Basin Basalt |
| RAPW | Relativistic Augmented Plane Wave |
| APA | Administrative Procedure Act |
| RIP | Rapid Isothermal Processing |
| BCDF | B Cell Differentiation Factor |
| SIM | Stress-induced Martensite |
| UA | United Atom |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| SIIMS | Secondary Ion Imaging Mass Spectrometry |