| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIET | Desorption Induced By Electronic Transitions |
| TOD | Theoretical Oxygen Demand |
| SSSD | Small-scale, Short-duration |
| AERL | Air And Energy Engineering Research Laboratory |
| ROC | Receptor-operated Ca2+ Channel |
| LCAO LSD | Linear Combination Of Atomic Orbitals-local Spin Density |
| IMPPT | Intermolecular Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Theory |
| NAMF | Non-asbestos Mineral Fibers |
| MIRIS | Multiple Internal Reflection IR Spectroscopy |
| LSTH | Liu-Siegbahn-Truhlar-Horowitz (potential-energy Surface) |