| Acronym | Meaning |
| QSO | Quasistellar Objects |
| SCC | Standards Council Of Canada |
| QAS | Quality Assurance Standard |
| SDME | Single-drop Microextraction |
| IUCLID | International Uniform ChemicaL Information Database |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Authority (Australia) |
| CLCC | Ceramic Leaded Chip Carrier |
| BWPT | Brillouin-Wigner Perturbation Theory |
| SCC-IEH | Self-consistent Charge-iterative Extended Hueckel |
| RFID | Radio-frequency Identification |