| Acronym | Meaning |
| MVR | Mechanical Vapor Recompression (evaporator) |
| SPADE | Stratospheric Photochemistry |
| SCPI | Standard Commands For Programmable Instruments |
| CTP | Cytidine 5'-triphosphate |
| PTS | Position-tagged Spectroscopy |
| CPMAS | Cross Polarization Magic Angle Spinning (C-13 NMR) |
| OAO | Orthogonalized Atomic Orbital |
| EDRS | Enforcement Document Retrieval System |
| BPB | 4-bromophenacyl Bromide |
| PPC | Polypropylene Carbonate |