| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALE | Atomic Layer Epitaxy |
| ECS-EP | Energy-corrected Sudden-exponential Polynomial (scaling Law) |
| WWCOT | Whisker Wall Coated Open Tubular Column |
| ETS | Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| LAAFS | Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| MSC | Multiplicative Scatter Correction |
| FEFA | Fiber-optic Evanescent Field Absorption |
| ECNICI | Electron Capture Negative Ion Chemical Ionization |
| PFC | Polarized Frozen Core Approximation |
| SNOM | Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |