| Acronym | Meaning |
| SML | Surface Microlayer |
| DIPSI | Direct Implicit Plasma Surface Interactions (computer Program) |
| APPI | Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High Mass Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| NPAH | Nitro-polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon |
| RB | Renormalized Band (method In Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| BAIR | Biological Atlas Of Insulin Resistance |
| BJH | Bopp-Jancso-Heinzinger (potential Function) |
| FDPM | Frequency-domain Photon Migration |
| CSPA | Cold Shock Protein A |