| Acronym | Meaning |
| TBBA | Tightly-bound-on-the-bond Approxn. (band Structure Crystal) |
| CWD | Chronic Wasting Disease |
| CICAD | Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents |
| ADARD | Acid Deposition And Atmospheric Research Division |
| IDMA | Isotopic Dilution And Mass Analysis |
| IFM | Immunofluorescence Microscopy |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute |
| OMS | Octahedral Molecular Sieve |
| GWPM | Gaussian Wave-packet Method |
| RTF | Replenished Tapped And Fractionated (magma) |