| Acronym | Meaning |
| IASCC | Irradiation-assisted Stress-corrosion Cracking |
| PCD | Programmed Cell Death |
| GFF | Green Function Formalism |
| PTIS | Photothermal Ionization Spectroscopy |
| ACC-IOS | Azimutal Close Coupled-infinite Order Sudden |
| ADGIXA | Angular-dependent Glancing-incidence X-ray Analysis |
| PESOS | Perkin-Elmer Solvent Optimization System |
| LCICD | Liquid Crystal Induced Circular Dichroism |
| GE-EPMA | Grazing-exit Electron Probe Microanalysis |
| CHQ | Cold Heading Quality |