| Acronym | Meaning |
| WISE | Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
| TEDE | Total Effective Dose Equivalent |
| APLR | Annual Pollutant Loading Rate |
| BF | Bright Field |
| DGB | Distributed Gaussian Basis (mol. Wave Function) |
| BPP | Bloembergen |
| PFTNA | Pulsed Fast Thermal Neutron Analysis |
| RIHRA | Research To Improve Health Risk Assessments Program (US EPA) |
| CPMC-SCF | Coupled Perturbed Multiconfigurational SCF |
| ORC | Origin Recognition Complex |