| Acronym | Meaning |
| FPA | Focal Plane Array |
| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
| MESNA | Sodium 2-mercaptoethane Sulfonate |
| CPE | Coulomb Wave-plane Wave (description With) Effective Screening |
| ISVM | Iterative Schwinger Variational Method |
| VCSEL | Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser |
| CSN-ICP | Conductive Solids Nebulizer-inductively Coupled Plasma |
| FLAA | Flame Atomic Absorption |
| PSII | Plasma Source Ion Implantation |
| SLS | Static Light Scattering |