| Acronym | Meaning |
| GLC | Gas Liquid Chromatography |
| HARA | Hazard Assessment By Risk Analysis |
| STEL | Short Term Exposure Limit |
| SRP | Soluble Reactive Phosphorus |
| NRM | Natural Remanent Magnetization |
| PSB | Photosynthetic Bacteria |
| ADTT | Accelerator Driven Transmutation Technology |
| SVP | Schwinger Variational Principle |
| CIDS | Circular Intensity Differential Scattering |
| PCID | Point-charge-induced-dipole (model |