| Acronym | Meaning |
| XRMA | X-ray Microanalysis |
| CDF | Chlorinated Dibenzofuran |
| VOC | Viable Organism Count |
| HPCE | High-performance Capillary Electrophoresis |
| AMNH | American Museum Of Natural History |
| MIVIS | Multispectral IR And Visible Imaging Spectrometer |
| DMBE | Double Many-body Expansion (in Potential Energy Surface Calcn.) |
| DDRPA | Double Direct Random Phase Approximation |
| QPLDA | Quasiparticle Local-density Approxn. |
| NTD | Nuclear Track Detector |