| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMCO | Age-momentum Correlation |
| NMOG | Non-Methane Organic Gases |
| ELKM | Extended Lumped Kinetic Model |
| NQCC | Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants |
| HMBC | Heteronuclear Multiple-bond Correlation |
| LID | Lased Induced Desorption |
| RVD | Regulatory Volume Decrease |
| HCOT | Helically Coiled Open Tube |
| VRPA | Variational Random Phase Approxn. |
| RCM | Rotated-coordinate Method |