| Acronym | Meaning |
| HVDB | Halogenated Volatile Disinfection By-products |
| ZBL | Ziegler, Biersack And Littmark |
| ZPL | Zero-phonon Line |
| LDR | Linear Dynamic Range |
| SMP | Submitochondrial Particle |
| DQFCOSY | Double-quantum-filtered Correlation Spectroscopy |
| ACIS | Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| GSCRF | Generalized Self-consistent Reaction Field |
| PO-DVR | Potential Optimized-discrete Variable Representation |