| Acronym | Meaning |
| TETS | Totally Enclosed Treatment Systems |
| MES | Molecular Emission Spectroscopy |
| MDGC | Multidimensional Gas Chromatography |
| CGHE | Carrier Gas Hot Extraction |
| MPCA | Multiway Principal Component Analysis |
| ANSOM | Apertureless Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy |
| MPF | Maturation-promoting Factor |
| SCC | Self-consistent Collective Coordinate (in Reactive Collisions) |
| ICAPES | Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Emission Spectrometry |
| LMFBR | Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactor |