| Acronym | Meaning |
| GFAA | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption |
| MDC | Maxwell Displacement Current |
| CEM | Corrected Effective Medium (for Atomic Interactions) |
| FEGE | Free Electron Gas Exchange Approximation |
| LST | Laser Scattering Tomography |
| PWO | Plane Wave Orbital |
| CELSIUS | Cooling With Electrons And Storing Of Ions From The Uppsala Synchrocyclotron |
| CNDO/2-V | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap-potential Method |
| LRT | Long Range Transport |
| GPUCHF | Geometric Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock Method |