| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIAQ | Council On Indoor Air Quality |
| NIRIM | Near-IR Raman Imaging Microscope |
| HCA | Hazardous Communication Act |
| AAODL | Atmospheric Aerosols And Optics Data Library |
| SWVP | Scattered Wave Variational Principle |
| LTE | Local Thermodn. Equil. |
| CCSF | Central Chemical Storage Facility |
| RPA | RNase Protection Assay |
| MUCA | Molecular Unit Cell Approxn. |
| EPOCA | Environmental Project On Central America |