| Acronym | Meaning |
| HCA | Heterocyclic Amine |
| PIPES | Piperazine-1 |
| RTP | Rapid Thermal Processing |
| STATE | Sulfur Transport And Transformation In The Environment |
| PPT-MCF | Pseudo-polarization Tensor-mutually Consistent Field ( For Mol. Interactions) |
| TCSCF | Two-configuration Self-consistent Field Procedure |
| DMU | WOCE Data Management Unit (USA) (now Part Of DIU) |
| MP4(DQ) | Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Treatment To Fourth Order In The Space Of Double And Quadruple Substitutions |
| NDO | Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| TDCP-HFR | Time-dependent Coupled Perturbed Hartree-Fock-roothan Approach |