| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEM | Conventional Electron Microscope |
| LOH | Loss Of Heterozygosity |
| PKS | Polyketide Synthase |
| NAMS | National Air Monitoring Station |
| ESIPT | Excited-state Intramolecular Proton Transfer |
| QCL | Quantum Cascade Laser |
| SCIA | Semiclassical Impulse Approxn. |
| DMC | Double Metal Cyanide |
| TDMO | Time-dependent Molecular Orbital |
| FIRFT | Fast Inversion-recovery Fourier Transform |