| Acronym | Meaning |
| IUPAC | International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemistry |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS) |
| ICM | Intracluster Medium |
| HL | Mustard-Lewisite Mixture |
| TLDA | Total Lifetime Distribution Analysis |
| SMBR | Submerged Membrane Bioreactor |
| DDAF | Dicretized Distributes Approximating Function (propagator |
| PHF | Periodic Hartree-Fock |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| ORD | Optical Rotatory Dispersion |