| Acronym | Meaning |
| FDS | Field Desorption Spectrometry |
| OMBD | Organic Molecular Beam Deposition |
| LCGTO | Linear Combination Of Gaussian Type Orbitals |
| NTCF | National Toxics Campaign Fund |
| BKD | Backscatter Kikuchi Diffraction |
| SIMPEDS | Safety In Mines Personal Dust Sampler |
| DTCI | 3,3'-diethylthiacarbocyanine Iodide |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| CFRC | Carbon Fiber-reinforced Cement |
| RTPCR | Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction |