| Acronym | Meaning |
| SDA | Structure-directing Agent |
| TDS | Thermal Desorption Spectrometry |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| STW | Surface Transverse Wave |
| WIPP | Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes) |
| SSCPA | Single-site Coherent-potential Approximation |
| EAP | Environmental Action Plan |
| APPI | Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization |
| QCD | Quantum Chromodynamics |
| DMCP | Double Microchannel Plate |