| Acronym | Meaning |
| THGA | Transversely Heated Graphite Atomizer |
| CPT | Coulomb Wave-plane Wave (description With) Truncated (treatment) |
| MFE | Modulated Free Electron Orbital Method |
| VBM | Valence-band Model (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| CST | Charcoal Sorbent Tubes |
| TSQMS | Triple-stage Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry |
| CFCM | Continuous Feed Completely Mixed Reactor System |
| MTB | Mycobacterium Tuberculosis |
| FGSE | Field-gradient Spin-echo |
| EDXA | Energy-dispersive X-ray Analysis |