| Acronym | Meaning |
| TCVA | Total Culturable Virus Assay |
| BATNEEC | Best Available Technology Not Entailing Excessive Cost |
| LIBS | Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| VHL | Von-Hippel Lindau |
| HAZWOPER | Hazardous Waste Operations And Emergency Response Regulations |
| PIRSS | Polarization IR Surface Spectroscopy |
| TDO | Truncated Diatomic Orbital (a MO) |
| EMT | Effective Mass Theory (in Electronic Wave Functions Calcn.) |
| ELED | Edge-emitting Light Emitting Diode |
| PBMC | Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells |