| Acronym | Meaning |
| MOVB | MO-valence Bond |
| LMIS | Liquid Metal Ion Source |
| BIO-FIX | Biomass Foam Immobilized Extractant |
| EFPI | Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometer Sensor |
| ARMAX | Autoregressive Moving Average Exogenous |
| NDDN | National Dry Deposition Network (US EPA) |
| MOST | Metal Oxide Semiconductor Transistor |
| CBNM | Central Bureau For Nuclear Measurements |
| CE/ESIMS | Capillary Electrophoresis/electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| QSRR | Quantitative Structure-retention Relationships |