| Acronym | Meaning |
| CERN | Conseil Europeen Pour La Recherche Nucleaire |
| PARC | Polycyclic Aromatic Ring Cleavage |
| LDA | Linear Diode Array |
| EHCO | Extended Hueckel Crystal Orbital |
| EIMP | Energy Independent Model Pseudopotential |
| CAE | Capillary Array Electrophoresis |
| AMBER | Assisted Model Building With Energy Refinement |
| IP | Impact Parameter Approximation |
| HRCT | High-Resolution Computed Tomography |
| SAS | Small Angle Scattering |