| Acronym | Meaning |
| HMWMC | Hazardous Materials And Waste Management Consortium |
| SP-RPAE | Spin Polarized-random Phase Approxn. (with) Exchange |
| AIPEA | Association Internationale Pour L'Etude Des Argiles |
| LBZ | Local Brittle Zone |
| CRF | Corticotropin-releasing Factor |
| HDT | Heat Distortion Temperature |
| BSSEC | Basis-set Superposition Error Correction |
| AMD | Acid Mine Drainage |
| EPEN | Empirical Potential (based On Interaction Of) Electrons (and) Nuclei |
| PAPVD | Plasma-assisted Physical Vapor Deposition |