| Acronym | Meaning |
| POC | Product Of Combustion |
| JKR | Johnson-Kendall-Roberts Contact Model |
| HTHS | High-temperature High-shear |
| PC-BOSS | Particle Concentrator-Brigham Young University Organic Sampling System |
| LTEC | Linear Thermal Expansion Coefficient |
| CCM | Crucible Ceramic Mold |
| GTF | Gaussian-type (wave) Function |
| SPOS | Single-particle Optical Sensing |
| IRMPD | Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation |
| FPIA | Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay |