| Acronym | Meaning |
| QELS | Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering |
| CBER | Center For Biologics Evaluation And Research |
| XSW | X-ray Standing Wave |
| APL | Alternative Pollutant Limits |
| PAI | Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor |
| CVAAS | Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| LEMF | Laser-excited Molecular Fluorescence |
| SAFM | Scanning Attractive Force Microscopy |
| LHP-RHF | Longuet-Higgins-Pople Restricted Hartree-Fock Method |
| BI | Bond Increment (method In Calcns. On Large Molecules) |