| Acronym | Meaning |
| DBF | Dibutyl Fumarate |
| CV-AFS | Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry |
| ASA | Acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate Terpolymer |
| CMDL | Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder |
| IDTIMS | Isotope Diln. Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| PDQ | Physician Data Query |
| PPE | Porcine Pancreatic Elastase |
| LACBED | Large-angle Convergent-beam Electron Diffraction |
| HFDA | Hexafluoroisopropylidene-2 |
| FP-MC | Finite Perturbation-multiconfigurational Method |