| Acronym | Meaning |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| HIERD | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection |
| ITEP | Institute For Theoretical And Experimental Physics |
| MSA | Mean Spherical Approxn. |
| CCFL | Countercurrent Flow Limitation |
| EP | Electrostatic Precipitator |
| AP-PCR | Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| IAETL | International Association Of Environmental Testing Laboratories |
| CA | Cellulose Acetate |
| SPPA | Self-consistent Polarization Propagator Approximation |