| Acronym | Meaning |
| LDMS | Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| NTDB | National Trade Databank |
| LAICP | Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| CGA | Colloidal Gas Aphron |
| SGFET | Suspended Gate Field-effect Transistor |
| FECO | Fringes Of Equal Chromatic Order |
| PIONA | Paraffins |
| ONBI | Oligonucleotide Bridge Intercalator |
| VCB-CPA | Virtual Crystal Bandwidth-coherent Potential Approxn. (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Alloys) |
| TSNIGRI | Research Center Of The Institute For Geol. Exploration Of Base And Precious Metals (Russia) |