| Acronym | Meaning |
| DWS | Debris Washing System |
| DECODE | Dipolar Echo Decay |
| ALS | Alternating Least Squares |
| HSDP | Hawaiian Scientific Drilling Project |
| SSB | Semiclassical Sudden Born (approxn. In Ion-atom Collisions) |
| WAND | Wide Angle Neutron Diffraction |
| FRES | Forward Recoil Emission Spectrometry |
| COH | Coefficient Of Haze |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| CIDNP | Chemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization |