| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICSC | International Chemical Safety Card |
| CWISE | Coated-wire Ion-selective Electrode |
| OUR | Oxygen Uptake Or Utilization Rate |
| VFD | Vacuum Fluorescent Display |
| ASNOM | Aperture Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| OPIM | Other Potential Infectious Material |
| CHEF | Chelation Enhanced Fluorescence |
| COSPAR | Committee On Space Research |
| APAES | Appearance Potential Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| CBO | Corrected Born-Oppenheimer (in Calcns. For Mol. Complexes) |