| Acronym | Meaning |
| DSCEMS | Depth Selective Conversion Electron Moessbauer Spectroscopy |
| LSS | Laser Synchrotron Source |
| JSAC | Japan Society For Analytical Chemistry |
| PWBA-C-EX | Coulomb Corrected Plane Wave Born Approxn. (with) Exchange |
| MOPW | Modified Orthogonalized Plane Wave |
| SCAQS | Southern California Air Quality Study |
| HIERD | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection |
| IPEM | Ion-photon Emission Microscopy |
| CGC | Constrained Geometry Catalyst |
| COSEPUP | Committee On Science |