Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• AOAC — Association of Official Analytical Chemists
• AOB — Analytical Operations Branch (OSWER)
• AOB — Adiabatic Oxygen Bomb (calorimeter)
• AOB — Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria
• AOC — Administrative Order of Consent
• AOC — Areas of Concern
• AOC — Assimilable Organic Carbon
• AOCI — Airborne Ocean Color Imager
• AOCS — American Oil Chemists’ Society
• AOD — Argon Oxygen Decarburization
• AODC — Acridine Orange Direct Count [of Bacteria]
• AODC — Australian Oceanographic Data Center
• AODP — Advanced Ocean Drilling Program
• AOEC — Association of Occupational And Environmental Clinics
• AOES — Actinometry Optical Emission Spectroscopy
• AOGCM — Atmosphere-ocean General Circulation Model
• AOI — Automatic Optical Inspection
• AOIPS — Atmospheric And Oceanographic Information Processing System
• AOM — Angular Overlap Model
• AOMA — American Occupational Medical Association
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic And Meteorological Laboratory (of NOAA
• AOP — Advanced Oxidation Processes (hydroxyl Generation)
• AOQL — Average Outgoing Quality Limit
• AOS — Alpha Olefin Sulfonate (surfactant)
• AOSTRA — Alberta Oil Sands Technology And Research Authority
• AOT — Aerosol OT (surfactant) (reg: 577117)
• AOT40 — Accumulated Ozone Exposure Over A Threshold of 40 Ppb
• AOT60 — Accumulated Ozone Exposure Above A Threshold Value of 60 Ppb
• AOTF — Acousto-optic Tunable Filter
• AOTS — Acoustic Optic Tunable Scanning
• AOU — Apparent Oxygen Utilization
• AOVB — Atomic Orbital Valence Bond (molecular Wave Function)
• AOX — Adsorbable Organohalogens
• AP — Appearance Potential
• AP-PCR — Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• APA — Air Pathway Analysis
• APA — Adiabatic Perturbation Approxn. (for Quantum Calcns. On Fermi Superfluids)
• APA — Alkaline Phosphatase Activity
• APACHE — Accelerator For Physics And Chemistry of Heavy Elements
• APAD — 3-acetylpyridine Adenine Dinucleotidepar
• APAES — Appearance Potential Auger Electron Spectroscopy
• APAF — Apoptosis Protease Activating Factor
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• APB — Antiphase Boundary (crystal Chemistry)
• APC — Air Pollution Control
• APC — American Plastics Council
• APC — Activated Protein C
• APC — Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• APC — Anaphase-promoting Complex
• APC — Antigen Presenting Cell
• APCA — Air Pollution Control Association
• APCAR — Angular Correlation of Positron Annihilation Radiation
• APCD — Air Pollution Control Device
• APCD — Air Pollution Control District
• APCE — Air Pollution Control Equipment
• APCE — Affinity Probe Capillary Electrophoresis
• APCI — Atm. Pressure Chem. Ionization
• APCRC — Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Center
• APCS — Argonne Premium Coal Sample
• APCVD — Atm.-pressure Chem. Vapor Deposition
• APD — Action Potential Duration
• APD — Air Particulate Detector
• APD — Antiphase Domain
• APD — Avalanche Photodiode
• APD — Azimuthal Photoelectron Diffraction
• APDB — Antiphase Domain Boundary
• APDC — Ammonium Pyrrolydinedithiocarbamate
• APDG — Antisymmetrized Product of Delocalized Geminals (wave Function)
• APDI — Anisotropic Point-dipole Interaction (model For Calcg. Long-range Intermol. Dispersion Forces)
• APE — Aerosol Photoemission
• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal Dystrophy
• APECS — Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy
• APEG — Alkaline Polyethylene Glycolate
• APEGM — Alkaline Polyethylene Glycolate Monomethyl Ether
• APELL — Awareness And Preparedness For Emergencies At Local Level
• APEO — Alkylphenol Ethoxylates
• APES — Adiabatic Potential Energy Surface
• APES — Atomic Plasma Emission Spectroscopy
• APET — Amorphous Poly(ethylene Terephthalate)
• APEX — Active Plasma Experiment Satellite
• APF — Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride
• APF — Advanced Particle Filter
• APFIM — Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy
• APFO — Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate
• APFU — Atoms Per Formula Unit
• APG — Alkyl Polyglycosidepar
• APG — Antisymmetrized Product of Geminals (wave Function)
• APGF — Antisymmetrical Product of Group Functions (a Wave Function)
• APH — Adiabatically Adjusting
• APHA — American Public Health Association
• APHEA2 — Air Pollution And Health: A European Approach 2
• APHIS — Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
• API — American Petroleum Institute
• API — Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
• API — Air Pollution Index
• API — Atmosheric Pressure Ionization
• APIG — Antisymmetrized Product (of) Identical Geminals
• APIMS — Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• APIOS — Acid Precipitation In Ontario Study