| Acronym | Meaning |
| VOF | Volume Of Fluid |
| MPD | Multiphoton Dissociation |
| APW | Augmented Plane Wave |
| WSF | Water Soluble Fraction |
| LUC | Large Unit Cell Semiempirical Approxn. (for Band Structure) |
| RBSN | Reaction-bonded Silicon Nitride |
| LCGTO-LSD-VW | Linear Combination Of Gaussian Type Orbitals-local Spin Density-Vosko-Wilk-Nusair |
| RFEC | Remote Field Eddy Current |
| LST | Light Scattering Tomography |
| ADGIXA | Angular-dependent Glancing-incidence X-ray Analysis |