| Acronym | Meaning |
| DMDHEU | Dimethyloldihydroxyethylene Urea |
| FLISA | Fluorescence-linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| CSD | Controlled Spray Deposition |
| ARO | Analytical Radial Orbital |
| MXRF | Micro-beam X-ray Fluorescence |
| AAD | Atomic Absorption Detector |
| DLD | Decoupled L-dominant Method (in Inelastic-scattering Calcns. |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk |
| AAIW | Antarctic Intermediate Water |
| MRCEPA | Multireference Coupled-electron-pair Approxn. |