| Acronym | Meaning |
| PIR | Protein Identification Resource |
| QUASAR | Quality Simulation Along Rivers (environmental Model) |
| AFMR | American Federation Of Medical Research |
| ICP-OES | Inductively Coupled Plasma-optical Emission Spectroscopy |
| FUSE | Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| MIDI-N | Split-type Contracted GTO Basis Set (n = 1 |
| JFET | Junction Field-effect Transistor |
| CIC | Consumer Information Catalog |
| STATE | Sulfur Transport And Transformation In The Environment |