| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPI | Electronic Patent Index |
| CASR | Chemical Activity Status Report |
| WTP | Willingness To Pay |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| CAIBE | Chemically Assisted Ion Beam Etching |
| CNMMN | Commission On New Minerals And Mineral Names |
| ECTR | Extended Connection Table Representation |
| DFPT | Density-functional Perturbation Theory |
| MIEMS | Membrane Inlet Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry |
| SHS | Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis |