| Acronym | Meaning |
| BGA | Bundesgesundheitamt (German Health Ministry) |
| HANS | Heavy Aromatic Naphtha Solvent |
| APT | Attached Proton Test |
| FESEM | Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| SSRS | Subtracted Shifted Raman Spectroscopy |
| CBM | Carbon Bond Mechanism (air Pollution Modeling) |
| SERHF | Symmetry-equivalenced Restricted Hartree-Fock |
| WCUB | Wang Chang-Uhlenbeck-de Boer (quantum-mech. Relation In Rotational Relaxation Calcn.) |
| WAO | Wannier Atomic Orbital |
| HIRIS | High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |