| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOSTRA | Alberta Oil Sands Technology And Research Authority |
| DET | Direct Nonradiative Electronic Energy Transfer |
| SD-POE | Sigma-dependent Pi-orbital Electronegativity Model |
| SPF | Simons-Parr-Finlan (potential Function) |
| BOA | Bond Orientational Anisotropy |
| DWBA3(3DWBA) | Three-body Distorted-wave Born Approximation |
| MERLIN | Multi-element Radio-linked Interferometer Network |
| HWI | Hazardous Waste Incineration |
| CPA | Coupled-pair Approximation |
| TSME | Two-state Molecular Expansion (method In Collisions Calcn.) |