| Acronym | Meaning |
| ARS | Agricultural Research Service (US Dept. Of Agriculture) |
| LEAFS | Laser-Excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry |
| PGE | Platinum Group Elements |
| AICR | American Institute For Cancer Research |
| KDV | Korteweg-de Vries (equation For Solitons) |
| CPSSR | Coulomb-repulsion Perturbed Stationary State With Relativistic Effects |
| CT | Charge Transfer |
| IDA | Interdigitated Array (microelectrodes) |
| CETP | Channel Equiv. Of A Theor. Plate |
| TPEPICO | Threshold Photoelectron-photoion Coincidence |