| Acronym | Meaning |
| BMS | Buried Metallic Sulfide |
| CFGE | Crossed-field Gel Electrophoresis |
| DFP | Diisopropyl Fluorophosphate |
| WAO | Wet Air Oxidation |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| CENP | Centromere-associated Protein |
| NPC | Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
| SEE | Standard Error Of Estimate |
| VEELS | Valence Electron Energy-loss Spectroscopy |
| SLIT | Solid-liq. Intermol. Transfer |