| Acronym | Meaning |
| HBSS | Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution |
| STAR | Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC |
| DMTA | Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis |
| RMP4 | Restricted Moeller-Plesset Fourth-order (perturbation Theory) |
| MIRO | Mineral Industry Research Organization (UK) |
| SI | Stieltje Imaging (method For Calcg. Wave Functions) |
| NLXC | Nonlocal Exchange Correlation (potential) |
| TCID50 | 50% Tissue Culture Infective Dose |
| SXPL | Soft X-ray Projection Lithography |
| TD | Transmembrane Distillation |