| DCT | Discharge Tube |
| DT | Drift Tube |
| FA | Flowing Afterglow |
| FDT | Flow-Drift Tube |
| FFR | Fast Flow Reactor |
| FJFR | Free Jet Flow Reactor |
| FTICR | Fouier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
| FTMS | Fouier Transform Mass Spectromery |
| GCMS | Gas Chromatography Mass Spectromery |
| GIB | Guilded Ion Beam |
| HPMS | High Pressure Source Mass Spectrometry |
| HPTOFMS | High Pressure Source TOF Mass Spectrometry |
| ICRMS | Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry |
| ITMS | Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry |
| LIT | Liner Ion Trap |
| MBeam | Merged Beams |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| Opt | Optical Spectroscopic Methods |
| PIMS | Photo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| PIPECO | Photo-Ionization Photo-Electron Coincidence Technique |
| PIT | Penning Ion Trap |
| PR | Pulsed Radiolysis |
| Quad | Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry |
| QUISTOR | Quadrupole Ion Storage Ring |
| R | Radiolysis |
| REMPI | Resonance Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization |
| RET | Ring Electrode Trap |
| RFIT | Radio Frequency Ion Trap |
| RFMS | Radio Requency Mass Spectrometry |
| SA | Stationary Afterglow |
| SCT | Electron Space Charge Trap Source |
| SFDT | Selected Flow Drift Flow Tube |
| SLTR | Ship-Lock Type Reactor |