| Acronym | Meaning |
| NLC | Noctilucent Cloud |
| ACCCI | American Coke And Coal Chemicals Institute |
| AFOE | Advanced Fiber Optic Echelle Spectrometer |
| MSA | Methanesulfonic Acid (air Pollutant) |
| IPT | Iterated Perturbation Theory |
| DOAS | Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
| ECEPP | Empirical Conformational Energy Program For Peptides |
| CASR | Chemical Activity Status Report |
| DBRTS | Double-barrier Resonant Tunneling Structure |
| DTDMAC | Ditallowdimethylammonium Cation [surfactant] |