| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAIR | Patent Application Information Retrieval System |
| ALSC | Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation |
| AMNH | American Museum Of Natural History |
| HIRIS | High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| IMP | Inosine 5'-phosphate |
| EAR | European Asthenospheric Reservoir (mantle Source For Tertiary-Quaternary Volcanism) |
| ETBE | Ethyl Tert Butyl Ether |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| CSCF | Canonical Self-consistent Field |
| LTBRM | Lanczos Tight Binding Recursion Method |