| Acronym | Meaning |
| UDMH | Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine (Alar Metabolite) |
| HUVEC | Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell |
| BHSIP | Bottom-hole Shut-in Pressure |
| CVT | Canonical Variational Transition-state (theory) |
| EMII | Enriched Mantle Component 2 (of S. R. Hart |
| VPDB | Vienna Peedee Belemnite |
| LNT | Liquid Nitrogen Temperature |
| QCISD(T) | Quadratic CI (with) Single (and) Double (excitations) (and) [triple Excitations Added Perturbatively] |
| AS | Air Stripping |
| ANDA | Active Nondestructive Analysis |