| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIC | Std. Industrial Code |
| RI | Refractive Index |
| ARB | Air Resources Board (California) |
| AS | Absorption Spectroscopy |
| TERT | Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase |
| PBS | Phosphate Buffered Saline |
| LAOCOON | Least-squares Adjustment Of Calculated On Observed NMR Spectra |
| VSMC | Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell |
| DAC | Diamond Anvil Cell |
| BRET | Breeder Reprocessing Engineering Test |