| Acronym | Meaning |
| DWPE | Distorted-wave (with) Polarization (and) Exchange |
| PPG | Polypropylene Glycol |
| VX | O-ethyl-S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphosphonothiolate |
| SAE | Society Of Automotive Engineers |
| ESDMS | Electron Stimulated Desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| MTES | Metastable Transfer Emission Spectroscopy |
| AUSTRALIS | AMS For Ultra Sensitive Trace Element And Isotope Studies |
| CC-EH | Coupled-cluster Effective Hamiltonian |
| CPB | Coupled Pressure Bars |
| IAE | Immunoaffinity Extraction |