| Acronym | Meaning |
| SLE | Stochastic Liouville Equation (in Quantum Statistical Mechanics) |
| ATG | Derivative Thermal Anal. |
| UTAO | Undistorted Traveling Atomic Orbital |
| DWFBA | Distorted-wave First-order Born Approximation |
| ALCHEMI | Atomic Location By Channeling Enhanced Microanalysis |
| GITXRF | Glancing Incidence And Takeoff X-ray Fluorescence |
| MAGW | Momentum-averaged Gaussian-weighted (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |
| NEM | NAAQS Exposure Model |
| EPR | Electrochem. Potentiodynamic Reactivation |
| ARDE | Aspect Ratio Dependent Etching |