| Acronym | Meaning |
| UHP | Ultra High Purity |
| FFEM | Freeze-fracture Electron Microscopy |
| PDF | Planar Deformation Feature |
| ANR | Adiabatic Nuclear Rotation (in Calcns. On Mol. Collisions) |
| STA | Science And Technology Agency (Japan) |
| CPMC-SCF | Coupled Perturbed Multiconfigurational SCF |
| MCM | Minichromosome Maintenance |
| FID | Free Induction Decay (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy) |
| ASPEN | Assessment System For Population Exposure Nationwide |
| FAPES | Furnace Atomization Plasma Emission Spectrometry |