| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASBOW | Axial Spin Bond-order Wave |
| PERALS | Photon-Electron Rejecting Alpha Liquid Scintillation |
| MW | Molecular Weight |
| QRPA | Quadratic Random Phase Approxn. |
| CCFL | Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp |
| FEMO | Free-electron Molecular Orbital |
| MMCDF | Multichannel Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock Method |
| CNDO LHP | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap Longet-Higgins-Pople |
| SPF | Specific Pathogen-free |
| ACZS | Alumina-chrome-zirconia-silica Refractory |