| Acronym | Meaning |
| JCPDS | Joint Committee On Powder Diffraction Standards |
| WSD | Water Saturation Deficit |
| DEQ | Department Of Environmental Quality |
| ICD | International Classification Of Diseases |
| MIDAS | Microimaging Dust Analysis System |
| MIR | Mid Infrared |
| PAC | Powdered Activated Carbon |
| AEERL | Air And Energy Engineering Research Laboratory (US EPA) |
| CDW | Charge-density Wave |
| MR-MBPT | Multireference-many-body Perturbation Theory |