| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACE | Atmospheric Collection Equipment |
| LHP-RHF | Longuet-Higgins-Pople Restricted Hartree-Fock Method |
| CERDA | Coincident Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
| SASA | Solvent-accessible Surface Area |
| QCSE | Quantum-confined Stark Effect |
| IOSH | Institution Of Occupational Safety And Health |
| AASHTO | American Association Of State And Highway Transportation Officials |
| NECEEM | Nonequilibrium Capillary Electrophoresis Of Equilibrium Mix |
| NLS | Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation |
| NORS | National Organics Reconnaissance Survey (US EPA 1974-1975) |