| Acronym | Meaning |
| CP | Cellulose Propionate |
| MAS | Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy |
| CAM | Coupled Angular Modes (method In Calcns. On Electron Exchange Collisions) |
| DSW | Dirac Scattered-wave (often As SCF-X(alpha)-DSW Method) |
| ABEP | Acetate Buffer Extraction Procedure |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center (of NOAA |
| SMMO | Strictly Monomer Molecular Orbital |
| CTMAB | Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (cationic Surfactant) |
| DRIS | Double Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy |
| QTOF | Quadrupole Time-of-flight |