Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• POY — Partially Oriented Yarn (usually Synthetics
• PP — Pariser Parr
• PP — Polarization Propagator
• PP-MRD-CI — Pseudopotential-multireference Double Excitation-CI
• PPA — Pollution Prevention Act (of 1990)
• PPAC — Parallel-plate Avalanche Counter
• PPAD — Parallel-plate Avalanche Detector
• PPAR — Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor
• PPB — Parts Per Billion
• PPBA — Plane-wave Plane-wave Born Approximation
• PPC — Polypropylene Carbonate
• PPCP — Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products
• PPD — Purified Protein Derivative
• PPDS — Physical Property Data Service
• PPE — Personal Protective Equipment
• PPE — Poly(phenylene Ether)s
• PPE — Porcine Pancreatic Elastase
• PPES — Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy
• PPFD — Photosynthetic Photon Flux D.
• PPG — Pike’s Peak Granite (USGS Rock Standard)
• PPG — Polypropylene Glycol
• PPGA — Plastic Pin Grid Array [electronic Package]
• PPGVB — Perfect Pairing Generalized Valence Bond (wave Function)
• PPH — Parts Per Hundred
• PPHM — Parts Per Hundred Million
• PPI — Prepulse Inhibition
• PPI — Proton Pump Inhibitor
• PPIC — Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse
• PPKTP — Periodically Poled KTiOPO4
• PPLN — Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate
• PPLO — Pleuropneumonia-like Organism
• PPLV — Preliminary Pollutant Limit Value
• PPM — Pair Population Method
• PPM — Parts Per Million
• PPM — Path Probability Method
• PPMA — Parts Per Million Atomic
• PPMSVX — Pseudopotential Multiple-scattering Valence-exchange
• PPN — Peroxypropionyl Nitrate
• PPO — Poly (phenylene Oxide)
• PPP — Positron Polarization Potential
• PPPA — Poison Prevention Packaging Act
• PPQ — Parts Per Quadrillion
• PPR — Projection Pursuit Regression
• PPS — Poly (phenylene Sulfide)
• PPT — Parts Per Trillion
• PPT-MCF — Pseudo-polarization Tensor-mutually Consistent Field ( For Mol. Interactions)
• PPV — Poly(p-phenylene Vinylene)
• PPV — Poly(phenylene Vinylene)
• PQC — Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal
• PQCD — Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
• PQFP — Plastic Quad Flat Package
• PQL — Practical Quantitation Levels (of Pollutants
• PR — Preliminary Review
• PRA — Probabilistic Risk Assessment
• PRA — Plasma Renin Activity
• PRB — Permeable Reactive Barrier
• PRBS — Pseudo-random Binary Sequence
• PRCPTS — Primary Reactor Coolant Pump Trip System
• PRDA — Program Research And Development Announcement
• PRDDO — Partial Retention of Diatomic Differential Overlap
• PRE — Pitting Resistance Equivalent
• PRE — Proton Relaxation Enhancement
• PRECP — Processing Emissions By Cloud And Precipitation (DOE Program)
• PREELS — Position-resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
• PREEN — Pacific Rim Energy And Environment Network
• PREM — Preliminary Ref. Earth Model
• PRENFLO — PRessurized ENtrained FLOw (process) [combustion And Gasification]
• PREP — Plasma Rotating Electrode Process
• PRESS — Point Resolved Spectroscopy
• PRESS — Prediction Error Sum of Squares
• PRESTO — Prediction of Radiological Effects To Shallow Trench Operation
• PREVENT — Pacific Northwest Regional Visibility Expt. Using Natural Tracers
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• PRFT — Partially Relaxed Fourier Transform
• PRIMA — Pattern Recognition By Independent Multicategory Analysis
• PRIME — Plume Rise Model Enhancements
• PRIME — Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory
• PRINS — Primed In Situ DNA Synthesis
• PRISM — Power Reactor Innovative Small Module
• PRISM — Parameter-related Internal Standard Method
• PRM — Primary Reference Material
• PRMO — Partially Restricted Molecular Orbital
• PROACT — Proactive Respirometric Operational And Control Technology
• PROC — Photochemically Reactive Organic Compound(s)
• PROM — Programmable Read-only Memory
• PROW — Protein Reviews On The Web
• PROWL — Protein Information Retrieval Online World Wide Web Lab
• PROX — Preferential CO Oxidn.
• PRP — Platelet-rich Plasma
• PRP — Potentially Responsible Party (Superfund)
• PRP — Proline-rich Protein
• PRP — Prion Protein
• PRPP — Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate
• PRRSV — Porcine Reproductive And Respiratory Syndrome Virus
• PRS — Perturbed Rotational State (method For Ion-mol. Collisions)
• PRT — Platinum Resistance Thermometer
• PRTD — Proportional Residence Time Distribution (of Liquid Streams In Equalization Basins In WWT)
• PRTR — Pollutant Release And Transfer Register
• PRV — Pseudorabies Virus
• PRZM — Pesticide Root Zone Model