| Acronym | Meaning |
| PEDS | Plasma-enhanced Deposition System |
| HFS | Hartree Fock Slater |
| APACHE | Accelerator For Physics And Chemistry Of Heavy Elements |
| PCEM | Point-charge Electrostatic Model |
| GS | Gelius-Siegbahn (MO Approxn.) |
| CAL | Central Analytical Laboratory |
| CGA | Compressed Gas Association |
| INADEQUATE | Incredible Natural Abundance Double Quantum Transfer Experiment |
| CMP | Cartilage Matrix Protein |
| GFAAS | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |