| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIET | Desorption Induced By Electronic Transitions |
| OOA | Oxygenated Organic Aerosol |
| ZLS | Zeeman Laser Scattering |
| FEPCA | Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act |
| PDI | Point Dipole Interaction (model For Mol.-polarizability Calcns.) |
| ASM | Acoustic Surface Measurement |
| LDC | Less Developed Countries |
| CTOF | Charge Time-of-Flight Spectrometer |
| TBMD | Tight-binding Molecular Dynamics |
| CME | Chemically Modified Electrode |