| Acronym | Meaning |
| MC | Metal Carbide |
| AMS | AIRS Area/Mobile Source Subsystem (subsystem Of AIRS) |
| MOA | Maximum Overlap Approximation |
| EMT | Effective Mass Theory (in Electronic Wave Functions Calcn.) |
| HPCPC | High Performance Centrifugal Partition Chromatography |
| TAG | Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse |
| LAXRD | Low-angle X-ray Diffraction |
| NQCC | Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants |
| ARO | Analytical Radial Orbital |
| APSGF | Antisymmetrical Product Of Strongly Orthogonal Group Functions (a Wave Function) |