| Acronym | Meaning |
| APELL | Awareness And Preparedness For Emergencies At Local Level |
| TSM | Thickness Shear Mode |
| MMP | Monitoring Master Plan (of North Sea Task Force) |
| CMF | Colloid Metal Film |
| OPGF | One-particle Green Function |
| A/PI | Ab Initio Perturbed Ion (quantum Clacn. Method) |
| THFA | Target Hartree-Fock Approximation |
| FIP | Full Intra-pair (spin-coupling) (wave Function) |
| BXE | Bombardment-induced X-ray Emission |
| LAAFS | Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy |