| Acronym | Meaning |
| PVF | Poly(vinyl Fluoride) |
| DVI | Dust Veil Index |
| HOCS | Harmonic-oscillator Coherent States |
| GOCO | Government-owned |
| MAP | Modified Atmosphere Packaging |
| IRMS | Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| BAC-MP4 | Bond-additivity-corrected Moeller-Plesset 4th-order Perturbation |
| CILS | Core Ionization Loss Spectroscopy |
| ITFW | Improved Thomas-Fermi-Weizaecker (model) |