| Acronym | Meaning |
| BSCCO | Bismuth Strontium Calcium Copper Oxide |
| OTTLE | Optically Transparent Thin-layer Electrode |
| BHK | Baby Hamster Kidney |
| SCM | Spherical Cellular Model |
| BCG | Bacillus Calmette-Guerin |
| AVP | Arginine Vasopressin |
| SAA | Serum Amyloid A |
| MGS/TES | Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer |
| DIGM | Diffusion Induced Grain Boundary Migration |
| OBK3 | Third-order Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers |