| Acronym | Meaning |
| QAPP | Quality Assurance Project Plan |
| ISV | In Situ Vitrification |
| MOR | Mid-ocean Ridge |
| AIP | Arc Ion Plating |
| ACCDPPA | Approx. Coupled Cluster With Double Excitations Polarization Propagator Approxn. |
| NORS | National Organics Reconnaissance Survey (US EPA 1974-1975) |
| LAESA | Laser Ablation Emission Spectrochemical Analysis |
| ORGDL | Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Lab. |
| SCMPS | Spin-corrected Moeller-Plesset Nth-order |
| SCORIM | Shear Controlled Orientation In Injection Molding |