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This article was originally published with the title “The Radiation Pressure of Light” in SA Supplements Vol. 60 No. 1539supp (July 1905), p. 24666 doi:10.1038 ...

Acronyms and abbreviations are both common, but there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated.