| Acronym | Meaning |
| VOA | Volatile Organic Aromatic Compounds |
| CPAC | Center For Process Analytical Chemistry |
| MAGW | Momentum-averaged Gaussian-weighted (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |
| RIS | Rotational Isomeric State |
| NATA | National Air Toxics Assessment |
| SAM | Self-assembled Monolayer |
| AVCC | Average Carbonaceous Chondrites |
| ERS | Elastic Recoil Spectrometry |
| BKD | Backscatter Kikuchi Diffraction |
| FDM | Field Desorption Microscopy |