| Acronym | Meaning |
| PILC | Pillar Interlayered Clays |
| AOCI | Airborne Ocean Color Imager |
| CIVA | Charge-induced Voltage Alteration |
| CGTF | Cartesian Gaussian-type Function |
| INDO/S | INDO/spectroscopic Approxn. |
| FIC | Fractional Inhibitory Concentration |
| MIVIS | Multispectral IR And Visible Imaging Spectrometer |
| MCEB | Multiconfiguration Energy Bound |
| LSS | Lindhard-Scharff-Schiott Theory |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |