| Acronym | Meaning |
| QMB | Quartz Microbalance |
| MCPN | Matrix Coherent Potential Approximation |
| QTPT | Quantum Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory |
| NYSDEC | New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation |
| NER | Nucleotide Excision Repair |
| XCC | Expectation-value Coupled-cluster (in Correlation Energies And Electronic Properties Of Many-electron Systems Calcns.) |
| NSCP | North Sea Community Program |
| QVB | Quasiempirical Valence Bond (method) |
| RAGS | Risk Assessment Guidelines For Superfund Sites |
| LPIC | Low Pressure Ion Chromatography |