| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOD | Argon Oxygen Decarburization |
| ITO | Indium Tin Oxide (gas Sensor |
| STOM | Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscopy |
| SODART | Soviet Danish Roentgen Telescope |
| LAAFS | Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| WIMP | Wireless Implanted Magnetic Resonance Probes |
| SH2 | Src-homology 2 |
| HTXRD | High-temperature X-ray Diffraction |
| DEM | Distinguishable Electron Method |
| HFS | Hartree Fock Slater |