| Acronym | Meaning |
| PBMS | Photon Burst Mass Spectrometry |
| XUV | Extreme Ultraviolet |
| CEM | Conventional Electron Microscope |
| FCC | Face Centered Cubic |
| CIPEA | Comite International Pour L'Etude Des Argiles |
| IDEAL | Inhalation, Deposition And Exhalation Of Aerosols In/from The Lungs |
| AES | Auger Emission Spectroscopy |
| EIP | Eigenvalue-independent Partitioning (in Coupled-cluster Calcns.) |
| MRM | Multiple Reaction Monitoring |
| SPR | Stroboscopic Pulse Radiolysis |