| Acronym | Meaning |
| FIAM | Free Ion Activity Model |
| GRVB | Generalized Resonating Valence Bond |
| PEMA | Pseudoeffective Mass Approxn. (for Impurity Energy Levels In Semiconductors) |
| DFA | Detrended Fluctuation Analysispar |
| SHED | Sealed Housing For Evaporative Detn. |
| ICPD | Inductively Coupled Plasma Deposition |
| PCGC | Parallel Column Gas Chromatography |
| PLC | Preparative (thin) Layer Chromatography |
| AIEMP | Ab Initio Embedding Model Potential |
| GIXR | Grazing Incidence X-ray Reflectivity |