| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCIA | Semiclassical Impact Approxn. (in Ionizing At. And Mol. Collision Calcns.) |
| AH | Aryl Hydrocarbon |
| BDT | Brueckner (with) Double (and) Triple (substitutions) |
| SMSI | Strong Metal-support Interaction |
| IDEAL | International Digital Electronic Access Library |
| LACE | Laser-assisted Chemical Etching |
| EPA | Extended Pair Approxn. (in Elec. Cond. Calcn.) |
| CIHT | Configuration-interaction Hylleraas-type (wave Function) |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| HTST | High-temperature Short-time |