| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIW | Deionized Water |
| FID | Flame Ionization Detector (gas Chromatography) |
| DIANA | Detection Of Immobilized Amplified Nucleic Acids |
| IMPEACH-MBC | Improved Performance Accordion Heteronuclear Multiple-bond Correlation |
| HMPGI | Hybrid Multiple-prism Grazing-incidence |
| ENMR | Electrophoretic NMR |
| BAL | Broad Absorption Line |
| RRS | Resonance Raman Spectroscopy |
| ORO | Office Of Regional Operations |
| QLSM | Quadratic Least-squares Method (variational For Scattering) |