| Acronym | Meaning |
| IUGS | International Union Of Geological Sciences |
| WAXS | Wide-angle X-ray Scattering |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time |
| LDMS | Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| SURE | Sulfate Regional Experiment |
| AGNES | Absence Of Gradients And Nernstian Equilibrium Stripping |
| ISO | International Organization For Standardization |
| RAR | Retinoic Acid Receptor |
| IPDA | Intensified Photodiode Arrays |