| Acronym | Meaning |
| CERN | Conseil Europeen Pour La Recherche Nucleaire |
| CMF | Colloid Metal Film |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High Mass Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
| MOMO | Maximum Overlap Molecular Orbital |
| SPUMPN | Single-annihilation Procedure Unrestricted Moeller-Plesset Nth-order |
| ILIDS | Interferometric Laser Imaging For Droplet Sizing |
| TPA | Tissue Plasminogen Activator |
| ACSTM | Alternating Current Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| SLS | Sodium Lauryl Sulfate |