Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• PTIS — Photothermal Ionization Spectroscopy
• PTK — Protein Tyrosine Kinase
• PTM — Perturbation Trajectory Method (in Gas-surface Collision Dynamics)
• PTM — Posttranslational Modification
• PTMG — Polytetramethylene Glycol
• PTMT — Poly (tetramethylene Terephthalate)
• PTNO — Perturbation Theory Natural Orbital
• PTO — U.S. Patent And Trademark Office
• PTP — Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase
• PTR — Photothermal Radiometry
• PTR — Proton Transfer Reaction
• PTR-MS — Proton Transfer Reaction-mass Spectrometry
• PTRI — Programmed Temperature Retention Index
• PTS — Pressure Tuning Spectroscopy
• PTS — Phosphotransferase System
• PTS — Position-tagged Spectroscopy
• PTS — Pressurized Thermal Shock
• PTSA — Pressure And Temperature Swing Adsorption
• PTSD — Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• PTSPGF — Perturbative-type Single-particle Green Function
• PTV — Particle-tracking Velocimetry
• PTV — Programmed Temp. Vaporizing
• PTWI — Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake
• PTX — Pertussis Toxin
• PUCHF — Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock
• PUF — Polyurethane Foam
• PUFA — Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid
• PUHF — (spin)-projected Unrestricted Hartree-Fock
• PUHFS — Projected Unrestricted-Hartree-Fock-Slater
• PUMP — Projected Unrestricted Moeller-Plesset
• PUMP — Pure (alpha-spin-state) Unrestricted Moeller-Plesset Nth-order (wave Function)
• PURPA — Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act
• PV-RR — Perturbational-variational-Rayleigh-Ritz (matrix Method In Mol. Calcns.)
• PVA — Polyvinyl Alcohol
• PVAC — Poly(vinyl Acetate)
• PVAL — Polyvinyl Alcohol
• PVB — Poly(vinyl Butyral)
• PVB — Projected Valence Bond
• PVB-CSF — Projected Valence Bond-configuration State Function
• PVC — Pigment Volume Concentration
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• PVD — Physical Vapor Deposition
• PVDC — Poly(vinylidene Dichloride)
• PVDF — Polyvinylidene Difluoride
• PVEC — Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
• PVF — Poly(vinyl Fluoride)
• PVFM — Poly(vinyl Formal)
• PVM — Photovoltaic Power Module
• PVMS — Pressure Vessel Management System
• PVN — Paraventricular Nucleus
• PVO — Pseudovalence Orbital
• PVOH — Polyvinyl Alcohol
• PVP — Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone
• PVR — Pulmonary Vascular Resistance
• PVS — Performance Verification Sample
• PW-LDA — Plane Wave-local Density Approxn.
• PW-TDSE — Plane Wave-time Dependent Schroedinger Equation
• PWB — Printed Wiring Board
• PWBA — Plane-Wave Born Approximation
• PWBA-C — Coulomb Corrected Plane Wave Born Approxn.
• PWBA-C-EX — Coulomb Corrected Plane Wave Born Approxn. (with) Exchange
• PWBA-EX — Plane-wave Born Approxn. (with) Exchange
• PWBA-R — Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Relativistic Effects
• PWBE — Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Exchange
• PWEM — Partial-wave-expansion Method (in Electron Scattering Calcns.)
• PWETF — Plane-wave Electronic Translational Factor (ion-atom Collisions)
• PWFB — Plane-wave First Born
• PWG SCF — Plane-wave Gaussian Self-consistent Field Method
• PWHF — Plane-wave Hartree-Fock
• PWHT — Post-weld Heat Treatment
• PWIA — Plane-wave Impulse Approximation
• PWM — Pokeweed Mitogen
• PWM — Pulse Width Modulation
• PWO — Plane Wave Orbital
• PWPP — Plane-wave Pseudopotential
• PWR — Pressurized Water Reactor
• PWRI — Public Works Research Institute (Japan)
• PWS — Public Water System
• PWSA — Ports And Waterways Safety Act
• PWSB — Plane-wave Second Born
• PWSCF — Partial-wave Self-consistent Field
• PWTF — Plane-wave Translation Factors (in Atom-ion Inelastic Collisions)
• PWTM — Plane-wave T-matrix (for Electron-atom Scattering)
• PXD — Powder X-ray Diffraction
• PXR — Pregnane X Receptorpar
• PXR — Parametric X-ray
• PXRD — Powder X-ray Diffraction
• PXRF — Polarized X-ray Fluorescence
• PYMS — Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry
• PYS — Partial Yield Spectroscopy
• PZC — Polyzirconium Compound (isopropyl Alc.-zirconium Chloride Copolymer)
• PZC — Point of Zero Charge (of Water)
• PZC — Potential of Zero Charge
• PZEV — Partial Zero Emission Vehicle
• PZN — Lead Zinc Niobate
• PZT — Lead Zirconate Titanate
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• QA — Quality Assurance
• QA/QC — Quality Assurance/quality Control
• QAC — Quaternary Ammonium Compound