| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIN | Direct Injection Nebulizer |
| EFP | Explosively Formed Projectile |
| BO | Bond Orbital |
| BMRC | British Medical Research Council |
| HWIR | Hazardous Waste Identification Rule |
| LEDO | Limited Expansion Of Diatomic Overlap |
| MMD | Mass Medium Diameter (particle Size) |
| ICP-AES | Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometry |
| SC-MEH-MO | Self-consistent-modified Extended Hueckel-MO |
| DICD | Dispersion-induced Circular Dichroism |