| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHQ | Cold Heading Quality |
| RTA | Rapid Thermal Annealing |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting Retrievable Far And Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers |
| GIXR | Grazing Incidence X-ray Reflectivity |
| HIERDA | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk |
| FAPES | Furnace Atomization Plasma Emission Spectrometry |
| PAF | Platelet Activating Factor |
| GW-PG | Gaussian-weighted Planar Grid (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |