| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANK | Al2O3/(Na2O + K2O) |
| VOC | Volatile Organic Compound(s) |
| CANMET | Canada Centre For Mineral And Energy Technology |
| ITS | Internal Transcribed Spacer |
| PML | Promyelocytic Leukemia |
| ICPAES | Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry |
| STEP | Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project |
| EDQNM | Eddy-damped Quasinormal Markovian [mathematics In Engineering] |
| PIA | Peaking Impulse Approxn. (for Electron-exchange Collisions) |
| LCFFUA | Linear Combination Of Floating Functions Of United Atom |