| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMBR | Submerged Membrane Bioreactor |
| CTEQ | The Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental Project On QCD |
| HRFS | High-resolution Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| FIAS | Flow Injection Atomic Spectrometry |
| RIE | Reactive Ion Etching |
| VIM | Video-intensified Microscopy |
| HIRIS | High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| CAB | Continental Arc Basalt |
| OCEC | Open-channel Electrochromatography |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |