| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPO | European Patent Organization |
| FBR | Fixed Bed Reactor |
| RCA | Rolling-circle Amplification |
| NTI | National Toxics Inventory |
| LDI | Laser Desorption Ionization |
| GENESIS | Global Environmental And Ecological Simulation Of Interactive Systems |
| FIRFT | Fast Inversion-recovery Fourier Transform |
| FIGE | Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis |
| PVAC | Poly(vinyl Acetate) |
| CAD | Coronary Artery Disease |