| Acronym | Meaning |
| PMO | Perturbed Morse Oscillator (model Potential) |
| PLAD | Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition |
| GALP | Good Automated Laboratory Practices |
| DMS | Dimethyl Sulfide |
| CD-SCSAG | Centrifugal Dominant-small Curvature Semiclassical Adiabatic Ground State (tunneling Approxn.) |
| SCANIIR | Surface Composition Analysis By Neutral And Ion Impact Radiation |
| LCAT | Lecithin-cholesterol Acyltransferase |
| CWC | United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention |
| UAM-IV | Urban Airshed Model Version IV |
| HIM | Hydroxy Interlayered Minerals (clay Minerals) |