| Acronym | Meaning |
| YOS | Yttrium Orthosilicate |
| PIT | Phase Inversion Temperature |
| GE-EPMA | Grazing-exit Electron Probe Microanalysis |
| DIMPP | Differential Integrated Multiple Pulse Polarography |
| CSIR | Council For Scientific And Industrial Research (South Africa) |
| AMN | Alkali Metal Nitrite(s) |
| TAC | Toxic Air Contaminant |
| ACCDPPA | Approx. Coupled Cluster With Double Excitations Polarization Propagator Approxn. |
| MINDO/SR | MINDO S=overlap Integral R=internuclear Distance |
| MSCET | Month And State Current Emission Trends |