| Acronym | Meaning |
| IIR | Isobutylene Isoprene Rubber |
| FOQELS | Fiber Optic Quasi Elastic Light Scattering |
| ANC | Acid Neutralizing Capacity |
| SOLSE | Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment |
| HLPSA | Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act |
| RBS | Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| PLD | Pulsed Laser Deposition |
| BIA | Biospecific Interaction Analysis |
| SID | Selected Ion Detection |
| QCFF/PI | Quantum Mechanical Consistent Force Field Method For Pi-electron Systems |