| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICP | Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| PT-MVD | Perturbation Theory (with) Mass-velocity And Darwin (operators) |
| PCS | Photon Correlation Spectroscopy |
| AFEAS | Alternative Fluorocarbon Environmental Acceptability Study |
| VIM | Video-intensified Microscopy |
| AIMB | Analogy And Intelligence In Model Building |
| ESP | Elimination Of Solvation Procedure |
| PPES | Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy |
| LCRA | Linear Combination Of Rydberg Orbitals |
| AGCM | Atmospheric General Circulation Model |