| Acronym | Meaning |
| VSA | Vacuum Swing Adsorption |
| ABS | Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Copolymer (REG: 9003569) |
| WPAC | Working Party On Analytical Chemistry |
| TOG | Total Organic Gas |
| SACM | Statistical Adiabatic Channel Method (in Ion-mol. Reactions) |
| CAGE | Capillary Affinity Gel Electrophoresis |
| FOMBT | First-order Many-body Theory |
| CSD | Crystal Size Distribution |
| NSCP | North Sea Community Program |
| OTA | Office Of Technology Assessment |