| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material |
| CPI | Chemical Patents Index |
| STEP | Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project |
| SRC | Submarine Reactor Compartments |
| SNFC | Sulfonated Naphthalene-formaldehyde Condensates |
| PARISS | Prism And Reflector Imaging Spectroscopy System |
| QCMD | Quantum-classical Mol. Dynamics |
| PP | Pariser Parr |
| IMD | Intermetal Dielectric |
| ETV | Electrothermal Vaporization |