| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLID | Pulsed Laser Induced Desorption |
| PZC | Point Of Zero Charge (of Water) |
| CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Economy |
| NDB | Nondefective Bonding |
| BSA | Breathing-sphere Approxn. (for Inelastic Mol. Collisions) |
| MBAS | Methylene Blue Active Substance (surfactant) |
| CDA | Copper Development Association |
| DGB | Distributed Gaussian Basis (mol. Wave Function) |
| APRR | Adiabatic Passage Rotational-resonance |
| BOVOC | Biogenic Oxygenated Volatile Org. Compd. |