| Acronym | Meaning |
| YSAG | Yttrium Scandium Aluminum Garnet |
| UFF | Universal Force Field |
| GRAS | Generally Recognized As Safe |
| ACRS | Advisory Committee On Reactor Safeguards |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| NBR | Nitrile-butadiene Rubber |
| RS-LMTO-ASA | Real Space-linear Combination Of Muffin-tin Orbitals-atomic Sphere Approxn. |
| PAPS | Phase-alternated Pulse Sequence |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| SPCP | Surface Discharge Induced Plasma Chemical Process |