| Acronym | Meaning |
| APCRC | Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Center |
| MRFM | Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope |
| PVA | Polyvinyl Alcohol |
| HAD | High Aluminum Defect |
| AISI | American Iron And Steel Institute |
| SGBD | Steam Generator Blowdown |
| BCC | Brueckner Coupled Cluster |
| EMMC | Environmental Monitoring Management Council |
| AEERL | Air And Energy Engineering Research Laboratory (US EPA) |
| EMP | Electron Micro-probe |