| Acronym | Meaning |
| LCFA | Long Chain Fatty Acid(s) |
| PPBA | Plane-wave Plane-wave Born Approximation |
| VPDB | Vienna Peedee Belemnite |
| MOVB | MO-valence Bond |
| MIAM | Modified Independent-atom Model (for Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| PEL | Permissible Exposure Limit |
| SVOC | Semivolatile Organic Compounds |
| IRRAS | Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
| LPA | Linearized Propagator Approximation |
| TRACE-P | Transport And Chemical Evolution Over The Pacific |