| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFRPL | Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USA) |
| PTSPGF | Perturbative-type Single-particle Green Function |
| CANDU | Canadian Deuterium-Uranium Reactor |
| PMC | Percent Modern Carbon |
| CIT | California Institute Of Technology |
| MCP | Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein |
| NRT | National Response Team |
| RBM | Random Bonding Model |
| INSERM | Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale |
| AESOP | Airborne Experiment To Study Ozone Production |