| Acronym | Meaning |
| TRXF | Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence |
| AA | Activation Analysis |
| ETAD | Ecological And Toxicological Association Of Dye And Organic Pigment Manufacturers |
| USBM | US Bureau Of Mines |
| ADAS | Angular-dependent Auger Spectroscopy |
| DPT | Degenerate Perturbation Theory |
| PLAP | Pulsed-laser Atom Probe |
| PNP | Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase |
| KSA | Kirkwood Superposition Approximation |
| MIMS | Magnetic Field Induced Mixing Of Sublevels |