| Acronym | Meaning |
| FIIAA | Flow Injection Immunoaffinity Analysis |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| NLPS | Nonreactive |
| RW | Retonation Wave [backwardly Propagated Detonation Wave] |
| ECAP | Energy-compensated Atom Probe |
| ISP | In-line Strip Production |
| FDMS | Field-desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| CTD | Conductivity |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |