| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATRA | All-trans-retinoic Acid |
| ASA | At. Sphere Approxn. |
| DAIRS | Differential Absorption Infrared Sensor |
| FIGE | Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis |
| TLV | Threshold Limit Value |
| ICP/MS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry |
| OSCCM | Open-shell Coupled-cluster Method (in Electronic Property Calcn.) |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| NCC | National Computing Center |
| ISA | Instrument Society Of America |