| Acronym | Meaning |
| EAC | Environmental Assisted Cracking |
| CHCS | Chemical Hazards Communication Society |
| GC/MS/DS | Gas Chromatography/mass Spectrometry/data System (Finnigan) |
| TSPA | Total System Performance Assessment |
| ETS | External Transcribed Spacer |
| AMDCB | Applied Moment-Double Cantilever Beam |
| MSMO | Multiple Scattering Molecular Orbital Method (also Known As X(alpha) Scattered-wave) |
| MSBAR | Molecular Structure-biological Activity Relationship |
| DIPP | Deformed Inverse-power Potential |
| MTX(ALPHA) | Muffin-tin X(alpha) Statistical Exchange |