| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBRA | Coastal Barriers Resource Act |
| LOI | Limiting Oxygen Index [of Fire Retardant] |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| PESIS | Photoelectron Spectroscopy Of The Inner Shell |
| PTB | Phosphotyrosine Binding |
| CSI | Chemical Shift Imaging (NMR) |
| HAF | Halogen Acid Furnaces (for Burning Halogenated Wastes |
| RSV | Rous Sarcoma Virus |
| TCLP | Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure |
| CELIA | Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay |