| Acronym | Meaning |
| FCS | Fetal Calf Serum |
| SCCR | Self-consistent Current Relaxation (in Electronic Dynamic Structure Factor Calcns.) |
| HTLA | Heat-treatable Low Alloy (steel) |
| HWERL | Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory (USEPA Cincinnati) |
| DEF | Dose Effect Factor |
| CFO | Crystal Field Orbital |
| BOE | Buffered Oxide Etch |
| LEMF | Laser-excited Molecular Fluorescence |
| OLSR | Ordinary Least Squares Regression |
| ECP | Exchange Core Polarization |