| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDQ | Physician Data Query |
| FFM | Finite Field Method (in Mol. Polarizabilities Calcns.) |
| ASM | American Society For Metals |
| ICDW | Incommensurate Charge Density Wave |
| STP | Similarity Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory) |
| NTCF | National Toxics Campaign Fund |
| SDD | Silicon Drift Detector |
| GDMS | Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry |
| MESA | Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis |
| RTF | Replenished Tapped And Fractionated (magma) |