| Acronym | Meaning |
| BIRD | Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation |
| LCF | Low-cycle Fatigue |
| TDI | Toluene Diisocyanate [mixt. Of Isomers] |
| SALDI | Surface-assisted Laser Desorption/ionization |
| MCC | Microcrystalline Cellulose |
| A/C | Activated Carbon |
| SIC-GX-LSD | Self-interaction Corrected Generalized Exchange Local Spin Density |
| RMTA | Rigid Muffin-tin Approxn. |
| RSC | The Royal Society Of Chemistry |
| MBRSPT | Many-body Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |