| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSM | Synthetic Soil Matrix (US EPA) |
| EGU | European Geosciences Union |
| BOC-MP | Bond Order Conservation-morse Potential |
| HEIWIP | Heterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission |
| ALS | Acetolactate Synthase |
| RCF | Refractory Ceramic Fibers |
| VADW | Vibrationally-adiabatic Distorted-wave Method |
| IDAF | Interacting Distributed Approximating Function (propagator |
| CBE | Chemical Beam Epitaxy |
| NARSTO-NE-OP | North American Research Strategy For Tropospheric Ozone-Northeast Oxidant And Particle Study |