| Acronym | Meaning |
| DSC | Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| PDMS | Plasma Desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| UNAMAP | Users' Network For Applied Modeling Of Air Pollution |
| ARF | Acute Renal Failure |
| DET | Direct Nonradiative Electronic Energy Transfer |
| DHF | Derivative Hartree-Fock (quantum Theory In Calcns. On Mols.) |
| EXELFS | Extended Energy-loss Fine Structure |
| ERT | Estrogen Replacement Therapy |
| NL-SCF | Nonlocal (density Functional)-self-consistent Field |
| PIPN | Pseudo Interpenetrating Polymer Network |