| Acronym | Meaning |
| ARDRA | Amplified RDNA Restriction Analysis |
| FP | Fluorescence Polarizationpar |
| USDA | United States Department Of Agriculture |
| MIVIS | Multispectral IR And Visible Imaging Spectrometer |
| SAES | Scanning Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| LPLC | Low Pressure Liquid Chromatography |
| SRET | Scanning Reference Electrode Technique |
| RS-HFPT | Rayleigh-Schroedinger Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| MCDF-EAL | Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock-extended Average Level (for Energy Levels And Wave Functions Calcn. For Atoms) |
| QCD | Quantum Chromodynamics |