| Acronym | Meaning |
| HEPA | High-efficiency Particulate Air Filter |
| TMS | Transmission Moessbauer Spectroscopy ~ ~ |
| HAFID | Hydrogen Atmosphere Flame Ionization Detector |
| GSK | Glycogen Synthase Kinase |
| NBS | Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome |
| ONR | Office Of Naval Research |
| TBBM | Tight-binding Bond Model |
| CISTI | Canadian Institute For Scientific And Technical Information |
| BASTM | Beam-assisted Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| MIRA | Multivariate Image Rank Analysis |