| Acronym | Meaning |
| WFPC2 | Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 |
| TRSERS | Time-resolved Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
| BLT | Bismuth Lanthanum Titanate |
| STHF | Single-term Hartree-Fock |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council (Canada) |
| PAG | Periaqueductal Gray |
| OMTP | Overlap-multipole-expansion Procedure |
| MOT | Multistate Orbital Treatment |
| EDD | Enforcement Decision Document |
| DE | Destruction Efficiency |