| Acronym | Meaning |
| RSCPA | Reduced (second Order) Self-consistent Phonon Approxn. (a Green-function Calcn. Method) |
| PMO | Perturbed Morse Oscillator (model Potential) |
| PICP | Carboxyterminal Propeptide Of Type I Procollagen |
| CHEC | Commonwealth Human Ecology Council |
| IPES | Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy |
| STN | Scientific And Technical Information Network |
| CFC | Corrosion-fatigue Cracking |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| MM | Misch Metal |
| MBESHO | Maximum Bond-energy Symmetry Hybrid Orbital |