| Acronym | Meaning |
| FATT | Fracture-appearance Transition Temperature |
| RIS | Resonance Ionization Spectrometry |
| APIG | Antisymmetrized Product (of) Identical Geminals |
| CMO | Canonical Molecular Orbital |
| SORI | Sustained Off-resonance Irradn. |
| VGP | Virtual Geomagnetic Pole |
| NICE-OHMS | Noise-immune Cavity-enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy |
| CDHS | California Department Of Health Services |
| AMMRC | Army Materials And Mechanics Research Center |
| EAG | Exposure Assessment Group |