| Acronym | Meaning |
| VHAP | Volatile Hazardous Air Pollutant |
| SEP | Solar Energetic Particle (event) |
| TBC | Thermal Barrier Coating |
| CHAOS | Canadian High Acceptance Orbit Spectrometer |
| PRESS | Point Resolved Spectroscopy |
| MEEKC | Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography |
| RLS | Resonance Light Scattering |
| MOR | Modulus Of Rupture |
| ALOMAR | Arctic Lidar Observatory For Middle Atm. Research |
| SO | Stieltjes Orbitals (for Mol. Photoionization Continua) |