| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISPAC | International Society For Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds |
| ASE | Aromatic Stabilization Energy |
| AMS | AIRS Area/Mobile Source Subsystem (subsystem Of AIRS) |
| CHO | Chinese Hamster Ovary |
| CELIAS | Charge, Element And Isotope Analysis System |
| MS/MS | Multistage Mass Spectrometry |
| EIS | Electron Impact Spectroscopy |
| TCSPC | Time-correlated Single-photon Counting |
| TDEMSE | Time-dependent Effective Mass Schroedinger Equation |
| NLET | National Laboratory For Environmental Testing |