Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• WATOC — World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists
• WATOX — Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment
• WATR — Water Attenuation By Transverse Relaxation
• WAXD — Wide-angle X-ray Diffraction
• WAXS — Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
• WBC — White Blood Cell
• WBEPM — Weakest Bound Electron Potential Model (theory In Calcns. of Ionization Potentials)
• WBG — Wide-band Gap
• WBGT — Wet Bulb Global Temperature
• WCA — Water Conservation Area(s)
• WCA — Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (theory In Liq.-structure Calcns.)
• WCAT — Water-cooled Atom Trap
• WCBP — Well Characterized Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals
• WCDF — Worse Case Dilution Factor (in Receiving Water)
• WCOT — Wall Coated Open Tubular Columns
• WCRP — World Climate Research Programme
• WCUB — Wang Chang-Uhlenbeck-de Boer (quantum-mech. Relation In Rotational Relaxation Calcn.)
• WDA — Weighted-density Approxn. (within D. Functional Formalism)
• WDD — Weighted Density Distribution
• WDF — Wigner Distribution Function (in Study of Quantum Dynamics)
• WDI — World Drug Index
• WDM — Wavelength Division Multiplexing
• WDS — Wavelength-dispersive Spectrometry
• WDXRF — Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
• WECC — Western European Calibration Cooperation
• WEDM — Wire Electric Discharge Machining
• WEEE — Waste Electrical And Electronic Equipment
• WEEL — Workplace Environmental Exposure Limits
• WEF — Water Environment Federation (formerly WPCF)
• WEFA — Window Evolving Factor Analysis
• WEFT — Water Elimination By Fourier Transform
• WELAC — Western European Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
• WENDB — Water Enforcement National Data Base
• WEP — Weak Equivalence Principle
• WERC — Waste-management Education & Research Consortium
• WERL — Water Engineering Research Laboratory
• WET — Waste Extraction Test
• WET — Whole Effluent Toxicity
• WFA — Window Factor Analysis
• WFGD — Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization
• WFI — Water For Injection (pharmaceutical Term)
• WFM — Work Function Microscopy
• WFPC2 — Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
• WFS — Work Function Spectroscopy
• WGS — Water Gas Shift Reaction
• WGSATM — Working Group On The Statistical Aspects of Trend Monitoring (ICES)
• WHAM — Windermere Humic Aq. Acid Model
• WHH — Width At Half Height [in X-ray Diffraction]
• WHIMS — Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separation
• WHMIS — Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (Canada)
• WHMO — Wolfsberg-Helmholz Molecular Orbital
• WHO — World Health Organization
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• WHPA — Wellhead Protection Areas
• WHSV — Wt. Hourly Space Velocity
• WHV — Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus
• WHWT — Water And Hazardous Waste Team
• WIC — Washington Information Center
• WICEM — World Industry Conference On Environmental Management
• WIG — W-inert Gas Welding
• WILDCAT — Warning And Identification Lidar Detector For Countering Agent Threats
• WILT — Waste Interface Leaching Test
• WIMP — Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
• WIMP — Wireless Implanted Magnetic Resonance Probes
• WINDEP — Worksheet-Integrated Deposition Estn. Program
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• WINDS — Wideband Internetworking Engineering Test And Demonstration Satellite
• WINS — Well Impactor Ninety-Six
• WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
• WISE — Wide Line Separation (NMR Technique)
• WKB — Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (phase-shift Formula For Potential Scattering)
• WLA — Waste Load Allocation
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• WLE — Wigner-Liouville Equation (in Study of Quantum Dynamics)
• WLF — Williams-Ferry-Landel [viscosity Math. Relation/parameter]
• WLIMS — Wet Low Intensity Magnetic Separation
• WLM — Working Level Month (for Radiation Exposure)
• WLN — Washington Library Network
• WM — Waste Minimization
• WMAC — Waste Minimization Assessment Center
• WMAP — Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• WMMA — Waste Materials Management Act
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization
• WMT — Warped Muffin-tin Approximation
• WMTADS — Waste Management Technology Analysis Decision Support
• WNL — Within Normal Limits
• WNV — West Nile Virus
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• WOHL — Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory
• WORM — Write Once Read Many
• WOUDC — World Ozone And UV Data Center
• WPAC — Working Party On Analytical Chemistry
• WPB — Within Plate Basalts
• WPCF — Water Pollution Control Federation
• WPCP — Water Pollution Control Plant
• WPCR — Water Pollution Control Research (US EPA)
• WPI — Waste Policy Institute
• WPI — Whey Protein Isolate