| Acronym | Meaning |
| AIM | Adiabatic Invariance Method (in Ion-mol. Reactions) |
| BFS | Beam Foil Spectroscopy |
| FFDCA | Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act (US) |
| NIAID | National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases |
| CBE | Coulomb-Bethe (for Electron-ion Scattering) |
| MDH | Malate Dehydrogenase |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| SFE | Supercritical Fluid Extraction |
| FDS | Field Desorption Spectrometry |
| UXO | Unexploded Ordnance |