| Acronym | Meaning |
| IGCP | International Geological Correlation Program |
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis |
| SAR | Simulated Acidic Rain |
| AIPA | American Inventors Protection Act |
| HCD | Hollow Cathode Discharge |
| SNMS | Sputtered Neutral Mass Spectrometry |
| VPT | Variational Perturbation Theory |
| ERRD | Emergency And Remedial Response Division |
| CDV | Capacitor Discharge Vaporization |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device |