| Acronym | Meaning |
| FFSHC | Field Federal Safety And Health Councils |
| ADIOS | Asian Dust Inputs To The Ocean System |
| ARS | Autonomously Replicating Sequence |
| TCLP | Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure |
| NSR | Normalized Stoichiometric Ratio |
| CCM | Coupled-cluster Method (for Energy Level Calculations) |
| MP2 | Moeller-Plesset Second-order Perturbation Theory |
| SSTI | Small System Technol. Initiative (USEPA) |
| JSMS | Japan Society Of Materials Science |
| PACIMS | Passive Chem. Ionization Mass Spectrometry |