| Acronym | Meaning |
| SOCAB | South Coast Air Basin |
| RRM | RNA Recognition Motif |
| NEVE | Nonempirical Valence Electron Method |
| HEB | High Efficiency Boiler |
| IRM | Initial Remedial Measure |
| FFPC | Forced-flow Planar Chromatog. |
| MERT | Modified Effective-range Theory (for Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| EARISS | Energy And Angle Resolved Ion Scattering Spectroscopy |
| MEIA | Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassay |
| MZDO | Modified Zero Differential Overlap |