| Acronym | Meaning |
| EI | Electron Impact |
| BOE | Buffered Oxide Etch |
| MCF | Mutually Consistent Field Method (in Calcns. On Intermolecular Interactions) |
| HTXRD | High-temperature X-ray Diffraction |
| MWC | Municipal Waste Combustor(s) |
| RLCA | Reaction-limited Cluster Aggregation |
| DRP | Deutsches Reichpatent |
| SVT | Silicon Vertex Tracker |
| CCD | Carbonate Compensation Depth |
| SNARL | Suggested No-adverse Response Level |