| Acronym | Meaning |
| PI | Polydispersity Index |
| LCPH | Localized Chemical Pseudopotential Hamiltonian |
| ETBM | Empirical Tight-binding Method (in Electronic Structure Calcn.) |
| MOST | Metal Oxide Semiconductor Transistor |
| IDTIMS | Isotope Diln. Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| SXRFM | Synchrotron X-ray-fluorescence Microprobe |
| SAMPL | Selective Amplification Of Microsatellite Polymorphic Loci |
| DH | Dortmund-Hoerder (German Vacuum Steel Refining) |
| MONOS | Metal Oxide Nitride Oxide Semiconductor |
| AF | Audio Frequency |