| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACAR | Angular Correlation Of Annihilation Radiation |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| TDS | Thermal Desorption Spectrometry |
| CETTP | Complex Effluent Toxicity Testing Program (US EPA) |
| MECA | Molecular Emission Cavity Analysis |
| CNG | Compressed Natural Gas |
| GW | One-particle Green Function(g)-screened Coulomb Interaction(w) |
| BAM | Brewster Angle Microscopy |
| VLC | Visible Light-cured |
| SBE | Single Base Extension |