Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• UQ-NG — Uniform-quality (basis Set) Constructed With A Number (n) of Gaussian (g) Functions
• UQCISD — Unrestricted Quadratic Ci (with) Single (and) Double (excitations)
• URA — Universities Research Association
• URF — Unit Risk Factor
• URG — Umweltrahmengesetz (German Environmental Protection Framework Law)
• URIF — Uniformly Retreating Ice Front [in Model of Dehydration]
• URT — Upper Respiratory Tract
• URV — Unit Risk Value
• USABC — United States Advanced Battery Consortium
• USACE — US Army Corp of Engineers
• USAN — US Adopted Names (for Drugs)
• USANS — Ultra-small-angle Neutron Scattering
• USATHAMA — US Army Toxic And Hazardous Materials Agency
• USB — Universal Serial Bus
• USBM — US Bureau of Mines
• USCAR — United States Council For Automotive Research
• USCE — US Army Corps of Engineers
• USCM — Unified Solvation Cavity Model
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• USDI — US Department of Interior
• USDW — Underground Source Drinking Water
• USEPA — United States Environmental Protection Agency
• USGCRP — U.S. Global Change Research Program
• USGE — Ultrathin Slab Gel Electrophoresis
• USGS — United States Geological Survey
• USJ — Ultra-shallow Junction
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• USMAR — Upflow Static-Media Anaerobic Reactor
• USN — Ultrasonic Nebulizer
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• USPC — Unoccupied-states Potential Correction
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• USPIO — Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide
• USRA — Universities Space Research Association
• UST — Underground Storage Tank
• USTCS — Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Section
• USTR — US Transuranium Registry
• USW — Ultrasonic Welding
• UTAO — Undistorted Traveling Atomic Orbital
• UTI — Urinary Tract Infection
• UTI — Urinary Trypsin Inhibitor
• UTL — Upper Tolerance Limit
• UTLA — Ultra Thin Layer Activation
• UTMS — Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
• UTP — Unitary Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory)
• UTP — Uridine 5′-triphosphate
• UTR — Untranslated Region
• UTS — Ultimate Tensile Strength
• UVAS — UV Absorption Spectroscopy
• UVBIS — Ultraviolet Bremsstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy
• UVCS — UV Coronagraph Spectrometer
• UVP — Ultrasonic Vibration Potential
• UVPES — Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• UVPS — Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• UVRR — UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
• UW-PG — Uniformly Weighted Planar Grid (method In Calcns. of Electron-momentum Distributions)
• UXO — Unexploded Ordnance
• VA-HOMO — Vibrationally Active HOMO
• VA-LUMO — Vibrationally Active LUMO
• VACE — Vacancy Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis
• VACSY — Variable-angle Correlation Spectroscopy
• VAD — Vacuum Arc Degassing
• VAD — Vapor Axial Deposition
• VADW — Vibrationally-adiabatic Distorted-wave Method
• VAFTAD — Volcanic Ash Forecast Transport And Dispersion
• VAH — Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbon(s)
• VALE — Vacuum Atomic Layer Epitaxy
• VAM — Valid Analytical Measurement
• VAMAS — Versailles Project On Advanced Materials And Stds.
• VAMO — Variational Alternant Molecular Orbital
• VAP — Valence Alternation Pair (bonding Configuration Model)
• VAR — Vacuum Arc Remelting
• VARTM — Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding
• VASE — Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
• VASP — Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package
• VASS — Variable Angle Sampling Spinning
• VAWI — Variable Wavelength Interferometry
• VAZC — Vibrationally Adiabatic Zero Curvature (quantum Calcn. Approxn.)
• VB — Valence Bond
• VBCI — Valence Bond Configuration Interaction
• VBHL — Valence Bond Heitler-London (wave Function)
• VBM — Valence-band Model (in Electronic Structure Calcns.)
• VBR — Variational Basis Representation (in Quantum Calcns.)
• VBS — Virtual Bound State Model
• VBSCF — Valence Bond Self-consistent Field
• VBXES — Valence Band X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
• VBXPS — Valence Bond X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• VC — Vapor Compression
• VC — Vital Capacity (lung Function)
• VCA — Virtual Crystal Approximation
• VCAM-1 — Vascular Cell Adhesion Mol. 1
• VCB-CPA — Virtual Crystal Bandwidth-coherent Potential Approxn. (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Alloys)
• VCC — Variable Curvature Coordinates (in Calcns. On Mol. Vibrations)
• VCC-IOS — Vibrational Close-coupling-(rotational) Infinite-order Sudden (for Inelastic Mol. Collisions Calcns.)
• VCC-RIOS — Vibrational Close-coupled-rotational Infinite Order Sudden
• VCCPB — Variable-charge Coulomb-projected Born (approxn. For Electron-atom Scattering)
• VCD — Vapor Compression Distillation
• VCD — Vibrational Circular Dichroism
• VCDT — Vienna Canyon Diablo Troilite
• VCDW — Vector Charge-density Wave