| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTES | Metastable Transfer Emission Spectroscopy |
| EMAS | European Microbeam Analysis Society |
| PESM | Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy |
| CAM | Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway) |
| IFOT | Invariant Fock Operator Technique |
| CEMS | Conversion Electron Moessbauer Spectroscopy |
| CDRE | Convolution Difference Resolution Enhancement |
| GIXAS | Grazing Incidence X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy |
| MC | Mclean-Chandler Basis Set |
| CAP | Consolidation By Atmospheric Pressure |