| Acronym | Meaning |
| MCT | Mercury Cadmium Telluride |
| IEH | Intermediate Effective Hamiltonian |
| POPCORN | Photo-Oxidant Formation By Plant Emitted Compds. And OH Radicals In North-Eastern Germany |
| DWM | Distorted Wave Method |
| RHPA | Reverse Hemolytic Plaque Assay |
| CAIRA | Chemical Accident/incident Response And Assistance |
| ECCM | Extended Coupled-cluster Method |
| LAAM | Levo-alpha Acetyl Methadol |
| SPPS | Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis |
| SHRS | Stimulated Hyper Raman Scattering |