| Acronym | Meaning |
| BMAW | Bare Metal Arc Welding |
| ANMO | Average-natural Molecular Orbital |
| CFM | Charge-fluctuation Model |
| CRTA | Controlled Rate Thermal Analysis |
| ASX | Aluminosilicate Xerogel |
| RTPCR | Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PSXD | Position Sensitive X-ray Detector |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (US EPA) |
| EBI | Equivalent Background Illumination |
| INPADOC | International Patent Documentation Center |