| Acronym | Meaning |
| ZINDO | Zerner's Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| EMA | Ethylene Methyl Acrylate |
| PETP | Poly(ethylene Terephthalate) |
| BALQSO | Broad Absorption Line Quasi-stellar Object |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
| MBS | Minimum Basis Set Wave Function |
| ERLN | Environmental Research Laboratory Narragansett |
| EMPACT | Environmental Monitoring For Public Access And Community Tracking |
| PIAS | Photon-counting Image Acquisition System |
| MAGIC | Monodisperse Aerosol Generation Interface For Combining Liquid Chromatography With Mass Spectrometry |