| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANC | Acid Neutralizing Capacity |
| SALDI | Surface-assisted Laser Desorption/ionization |
| TPRRS | Transient Photoinduced Resonant Raman Scattering |
| SCAQMD | South Coast Air Quality Management District |
| CGO | Configuration Generating Orbital (a Type Of MO) |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group On International Agricultural Research |
| LICS | Laser-induced Continuum Structure |
| LSCM | Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy |
| RHFO | Relativistic Hartree-Fock One-channel (for Scattering) |
| TALMS | Tunable Atomic Line Molecular Spectroscopy |