| Acronym | Meaning |
| PIC | Products Of Incomplete Combustion |
| SRBC | Sheep Red Blood Cell |
| STS | Space Transportation System |
| SFMS | Sector Field Mass Spectrometry |
| LAESA | Laser Ablation Emission Spectrochemical Analysis |
| NLO | Nonlinear Optical |
| STXM | Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope |
| MINLP | Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programming |
| IQG | Independent Quasigeminals |
| CIR | Cylindrical Internal Reflection |