| Acronym | Meaning |
| HBOC | Hereditary Breast-ovarian Cancer |
| CFB | Circulating Fluidized Bed |
| BOTDR | Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry |
| ISEC | Inverse Steric Exclusion Chromatography |
| VB | Valence Bond |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia Of Genes And Genomes |
| CGR | Crack Growth Rate |
| SMSI | Strong Metal-support Interaction |
| HEAS | Health Effects Assessments |
| IGCI | Industrial Gas Cleaning Institute |