| Acronym | Meaning |
| PVD | Physical Vapor Deposition |
| EP | Electrostatic Precipitator |
| GSH-PX | Glutathione Peroxidase |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| HFD | Hartree-Fock-dispersion (type Of Intermol. Potential) |
| POHC | Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents |
| HFRSPT | Hartree-Fock Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |
| PAW | Plasma Arc Welding |
| OLF | Overland Flow |
| NCSRP | National Contaminated Sites Remediation Program |