| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDD | Maximum Daily Dose |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (US EPA) |
| RIS | Resonance Ionization Spectrometry |
| OMBE | Organic Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| IAPSO | International Association For The Physical Sciences Of The Ocean (ICSU) |
| RME | Reduced Matrix Equations |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| SBSL | Single-bubble Sonoluminescence |
| BHR | Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness |
| FCG | Fatigue Crack Growth |