| Acronym | Meaning |
| ELO | Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth |
| LCDO | Linear Combination Of Diatomic Orbitals |
| PESM | Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy |
| SRXFA | Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Fluorescence Analysis |
| FIIAA | Flow Injection Immunoaffinity Analysis |
| BAM | Brewster Angle Microscopy |
| USDA | United States Department Of Agriculture |
| MCDF-OL | Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock Optimum Level |
| 7-ADCA | 7-aminodesacetoxycephalosporanic Acid |
| MRSPT | Modified Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |