| Acronym | Meaning |
| CFC | Corrosion-fatigue Cracking |
| MARS | Membrane Anaerobic Reactor System |
| ESA | Endangeded Species Act |
| SRS | Symmetrized Rayleigh-Schroedinger (perturbation Theory) |
| CRC | Coupled-reaction-channels (quantum Calcn. Method) |
| CMM | Compositionally Modulated Multilayers |
| BCM | Bond Charge Model (in Force Constants Calcn.) |
| QRIOSA | Quantum Reactive Infinite Order Sudden Approxn. |
| BK-DOK | Berufkrankeit Dokumentation (German Occupational Disease Documentation) |
| PSA | Potentiometric Stripping Analysis |