| Acronym | Meaning |
| HIRBS | Heavy-ion Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| AB | Arc Brazing |
| DESPOT | Driven-equilibrium Single-pulse Observation Of T1 |
| APF | Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride |
| HF MO LCAO | Hartree-Fock MO LCAO |
| PSRA | Pulse Surface Reaction Rate Analysis |
| IHP | Inositol Hexaphosphate |
| ISRA | Image-space Reconstruction Algorithm |
| LCGO | Linear Combination Of Group Orbitals |
| XRFA | X-ray Fluorescence Analysis |