| Acronym | Meaning |
| FERST | Facility For Environmental Remote Sensing And Test |
| VPEEM | Valence Band Photoemission Electron Microscopy |
| EGRET | Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope |
| SSFLC | Surface-stabilized Ferroelec. Liq. Crystals |
| NFPA | National Fire Protection Association |
| CRU | Constitutional Repeating Unit |
| HFF | Hellmann-Feynman Force Approximation |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| CAPS | Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence |
| DLVO | Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, And Overbeek Theory |