AE: appearance energy
AES: Auger Electron Spectroscopy
AIS: Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
AMS: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
amu: atomic mass unit
AO: atomic orbital
AOM: Acousto-Optical Modulator
AP: appearance potential
AP MALDI: Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
APCI: atmospheric pressure chemical ionization
API: atmospheric pressure ionization
APPI: atmospheric pressure photoionization
ApSpe: Applied Spectroscopy
ApSRv: Applied Spectroscopy Reviews
ASMS: American Society for Mass Spectrometry
BB: broad band
BGM: Basis Generator Method
BIRD: Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation
BP: Base Peak
BS: beam splitter
CA: collisional activation
CAD: collisionally activated dissociation
CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CDC: Correlated-Double-Capture
CF-FAB: Continuous Flow Fast Atom Bombardment
CHESS: Chemical Shift Selective Imaging Sequence
CHISS: CHemical Shift Insensitive Slice Selective
CI: Chemical Ionization
CID: collision-induced dissociation
CLAES: Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
COLOC: Correlated Spectroscopy for Long Range Coupling
COLTRIMS: Cold Target Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
COSY: correlated spectroscopy
COSYLR: COSY for Long Range Couplings
CPD: Composite Pulse Decoupling
CRAMPS: Combined Rotational and Multiple Pulse Spectroscopy
CRF: Charge Remote Fragmentation
CRM: Consecutive Reaction Monitoring
CSA: chemical shift anisotropy
CSI: chemical shift imaging