| Acronym | Meaning |
| PVDF | Polyvinylidene Difluoride |
| ZMR | Zone-melting Recrystallization |
| ETBM | Empirical Tight-binding Method (in Electronic Structure Calcn.) |
| CCME | Canadian Council Of Ministers Of The Environment |
| EBRT | Empty-bed Residence Time |
| SVM | State Variable Model |
| HDC | Hydrodynamic Chromatography |
| CDW | Coulomb Distorted Wave (for Scattering Calcns.) |
| SPEED | SiRNA Prodn. By Enzymatic Engineering Of DNA |
| BK-DOK | Berufkrankeit Dokumentation (German Occupational Disease Documentation) |