| Acronym | Meaning |
| WILT | Waste Interface Leaching Test |
| COI | Constituents Of Interest |
| TIPS | Transferable Intermol. Potential Functions |
| CMAS | CaO-MgO-aluminum Oxide-silicon Dioxide |
| XC | Exchange-coulomb Potential |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| UHMPE | Ultra High Modulus Polyethylene |
| PCPAA | Prompt Charged Particle Activation Analysis |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| BWCCD | Brillouin-Wigner Coupled-cluster (with) Double (excitation) |