| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBOA | Crude Born-Oppenheimer Approximation |
| ETAAS | Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| PBIRG | Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence And Research Gro |
| AQL | Acceptable Quality Levels |
| INSIPID | Inadequate Sensitivity Improvement By Proton Indirect Detection |
| HSL | Hazardous Substance List |
| SWIFT | Stored Wave-form Inverse Fourier Transform |
| FANES | Furnace Atomization Non-thermal Emission Spectrometry |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practices (US FDA) |
| NAL | No Action Level |