| Acronym | Meaning |
| MASERATI | Middle Atmosphere Spectrometric Experiment On Rockets For Analysis Of Trace Gas Influences |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| PLC | Phospholipase C |
| DLCA | Diffusion Limited Cluster Aggregation |
| CMBR | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| WPT | Wave Packet Perturbation Theory |
| CIG | Commonwealth Industrial Gases Limited (Australia) |
| GCMS | Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry |
| GSC | Geological Survey Of Canada |
| ALIAS | Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer |