| Acronym | Meaning |
| AET | Apparent Effects Thresholds |
| ECETOC | European Chemical Industry |
| PZC | Polyzirconium Compound (isopropyl Alc.-zirconium Chloride Copolymer) |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| BMSC | Bone Marrow Stromal Cell |
| USBM | US Bureau Of Mines |
| MAGIC | Monodisperse Aerosol Generation Interface For Combining Liquid Chromatography With Mass Spectrometry |
| CCDZP | Correlation-consistent Double-zeta (plus) Polarization (basis Set) |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| GLAST | Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope |