| Acronym | Meaning |
| LIBS | Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| EPSRC | (United Kingdom) Engineering And Phys. Sciences Research Council |
| NPC | Niemann-Pick Type C Disease |
| CAROL | Centralized Air Emissions Repository On-Line |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
| RMT | Random Matrix Theory |
| GISAXS | Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering |
| PO-MO | Pars Orbital-MO |
| CAD | Collisionally Activated Dissociation |
| NOM | Natural Organic Matter |