| Acronym | Meaning |
| ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer |
| OVD | Outside Vapor Deposition |
| MOEXP | Morse Oscillator Exponential Repulsion Potential |
| AOS | Alpha Olefin Sulfonate (surfactant) |
| PSCI | Partitioned (orbital Hessian) Super-configuration Interaction |
| APT | Atomic Polar Tensor (in Ir Spectra Calcn.) |
| CAHF | Configuration-averaged Hartree-Fock |
| TURA | Toxics Use Reduction Act 1989 |
| SPMN | Soil Potentially Mineralizable Nitrogen |
| ESI | Electronic Supplementary Information |