| Acronym | Meaning |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
| CRWQCB | California Regional Water Quality Control Board |
| HOMER | Hazardous Organic Mass Emission Rate |
| CCTM | Coupled-channel Transition Matrix (in Atom-surface Scattering) |
| ELFFS | Excimer Laser Fragmentation-fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| DWTM | Distorted Wave T-matrix (for Electron-atom Scattering) |
| RPP | Reverse Pulse Polarography |
| PWHF | Plane-wave Hartree-Fock |
| MINLP | Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programming |
| WM | Waste Minimization |