| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFBC | Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustion |
| DLM | Diffuse Layer Model (of Adsorption) |
| SAFM | Scanning Attractive Force Microscopy |
| PQL | Practical Quantitation Levels (of Pollutants |
| CRDS | Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy |
| AFF | Aberration Free Focus |
| HOSE | Harmonic Oscillator Stabilization Energy |
| GCEMC | Grand Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo |
| TOTE | Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment |
| WBG | Wide-band Gap |