| Acronym | Meaning |
| A/C | Activated Carbon |
| FIM | Forced Impulse Method (in Atom Ion-impact Ionization) |
| XTEM | Cross-sectional Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| TSI | Trophic State Index |
| HCPA | Homomorphic Cluster Coherent Potential Approximation |
| MDS | Metastable Deexcitation Spectroscopy |
| EDNAP | European DNA Profiling |
| PGS | Phosphosilicate Glass |
| HFMD | Hellmann-Feynman Mol.-dynamics (method In Electronic Structure And Geometry Calcns.) |
| VASP | Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package |