| Acronym | Meaning |
| HRADS | High Resolution Adsorption |
| HEA | 2-hydroxyethyl Acrylate |
| DBP | Dibutyl Phthalate |
| UHV | Ultra High Vacuum |
| DTP | Developmental Therapeutics Program |
| EIGA | European Industrial Gases Association |
| AIM | Adiabatic Invariance Method (in Ion-mol. Reactions) |
| CARRI | Computerized Assessment Of Relative Risk Impacts |
| EWS | Engineering Workstation |
| BICFET | Bipolar Inversion Channel Field-effect Transistor |