| Acronym | Meaning |
| VOA | Variable Optical Attenuator |
| CFSO | Crystal Field Surface Orbital |
| PPAD | Parallel-plate Avalanche Detector |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| MEKC | Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography |
| FODA | Fiber Optic Doppler Anemometry |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| BCA | Bicinchoninic Acid |
| STODI | Slater-type Orbital-point Dipole Interaction (in Mol. Polarizability Calcns.) |
| OSIRIS | Oxford Supersensitive Injector For Radioactive Isotope Separation |