| Acronym | Meaning |
| SAPS | Spherical Average Pseudopotential |
| LIFI | Laser-induced Fluorescence Imaging |
| VFF | Valence Force Field (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| SC-FLAPW | Self-consistent Full-potential Linearized-augmented-plane-wave |
| PREEN | Pacific Rim Energy And Environment Network |
| AS | Auger Spectroscopy |
| LME | Liquid-metal Embrittlement |
| SLIME | Spin-locked Inversion Mid-echo |
| CRISM | Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer For Mars |
| ASAE | Alkali-sulfite-anthraquinone-ethanol (pulping Process) |