| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDF | Powder Diffraction File |
| FACE | Fluorophore-assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis |
| HV | Vickers Hardness Number |
| IMF | Intermediate Mass Fragment |
| ABS | Atomic Beam Scattering |
| EMT | Effective Mass Theory (in Electronic Wave Functions Calcn.) |
| RAINS | Regional Acidification Information And Simulation |
| SNOM | Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| ECE | Electrical Conductivity Of Saturation Extract (soils) |
| FPI | Fourier Path Integral |