| Acronym | Meaning |
| ELP | Elastin-like Polypeptide |
| SEMI | Semiconductor Equipment And Materials Institute |
| PCN | Polychlorinated Naphthalene |
| RS-HFPT | Rayleigh-Schroedinger Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| SCADS | Superfund Chemical Analysis Data System (see CARD) |
| DLVO | Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, And Overbeek Theory |
| MDI | Modified Dipole Interaction(model For Mol.-polarizability Calcn.) |
| NSC | National Safety Council |
| TPM | Two-potential Model (in At. Scattering Calcns.) |
| ICAP | Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma |