| Acronym | Meaning |
| APO B | Apolipoprotein B |
| HIERDA | Heavy Ion Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
| DBS | Dibutyl Sebacate |
| ANO | Approximate Natural Orbital |
| SCO | Self-consistent Orbital |
| ROSS2 | River Oil Spill Simulation 2 Layer Model |
| FEM | Field Emission Microscopy |
| ANA | Adiabatic Nuclei Approximation (in Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| DTBP | Di-tert-butyl Peroxide |
| EQS | Environmental Quality Standard |