| Acronym | Meaning |
| MAO | Modified Atomic Orbital |
| HIGFET | Heterostructure Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor |
| BPCD | Bipolar Pulse Conductivity Detector |
| IU | International Unit |
| DRS | Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy |
| QCP | Quantized Classical Path (method For Calcg. Quantum-mech. Rate Consts.) |
| SHAPE | Simulation Of Human Activity And Pollution Exposure |
| SBMF | Slave-boson Mean Field (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| ICP-MS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry |
| MAS | Magic Angle Spinning (solid State NMR) |