| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIBO | Council Of Industrial Boiler Owners |
| FIRF | Finite Impulse Response Filter |
| PQC | Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal |
| CCMP | Capacitively Coupled Microwave Plasma |
| ZHEV | Zero-Headspace Extraction Vessel |
| HAT | Histone Acetyltransferase |
| ICPAEMC | International Commission For Protection Against Environmental Mutagens And Carcinogens |
| DAHS | Data Acquisition And Handling System |
| AUFS | Absorbance Units Full Scale |
| LHP-RHF | Longuet-Higgins-Pople Restricted Hartree-Fock Method |