| Acronym | Meaning |
| HAZW | Hazardous Waste Collection Database (accessible Through OLS) |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization |
| PR | Preliminary Review |
| ERS | Elastic Recoil Spectrometry |
| BCIRA | British Cast Iron Research Association |
| ACR | Absolute Cryogenic Radiometer |
| NIEL | Non-ionizing Energy Loss |
| AQUIRE | Aquatic Information Retrieval |
| APD | Azimuthal Photoelectron Diffraction |
| ATIR | Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared |