Chemistry Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Chemistry Acronyms

• NIS — Neutron Inelastic-scattering
• NIS — Sodium Iodide Symporter
• NISO — National Information Standards Organization
• NIST — National Institute of Standards And Technology (formerly NBS)
• NISTO — Non-integer Slater-type Orbital
• NITEP — National Incinerator Testing And Evaluation Program (Canada)
• NITFS — National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
• NITM — Normalized Irreducible Tensorial Matrix
• NITS — National Institute of Technology And Standards
• NIWA — National Institute For Water And Atm. Research [New Zealand]
• NIWG — National Interagency Work Group
• NIWR — National Institute For Water Research (South Africa)
• NIXSW — Normal Incidence X-ray Standing Wave
• NJTSR — New Jersey Trade Secret Registry
• NK — Natural Killer
• NKA — (Na2O + K2O)/Al2O3
• NKB — Nachklarbecken; Secondary Settling Tank
• NKN — Sodium Potassium Niobate
• NL-SCF — Nonlocal (density Functional)-self-consistent Field
• NLAP — Nonlimited Aeration Process (for Waste Treatment)
• NLC — Next Linear Collider
• NLC — Nematic Liq. Crystal
• NLC — Noctilucent Cloud
• NLCR — Nonlinear Continuum Regression
• NLDA — Nonlocal Density Approxn.
• NLDF — Nonlocal Density Functional
• NLDFT — Nonlocal Density Functional Theory
• NLET — National Laboratory For Environmental Testing
• NLGI — National Lubricating Grease Institute
• NLLAP — National Lead Laboratory Accreditation Program
• NLLS — Nonlinear Least Squares
• NLLSCF — Nonlinear Least Squares Curve Fitting
• NLLSF — Non-linear Least Square Fitting
• NLLSQ — Nonlinear Least Squares
• NLM — National Library of Medicine
• NLM — Nonlinear Mapping
• NLMO — Natural Localized Mol. Orbital
• NLMO — Nonorthogonal Localized Molecular Orbital
• NLO — Nonlinear Optical
• NLP — Natural Language Processing
• NLP — Nonlinear Programming
• NLPLS — Nonlinear Partial Least Squares
• NLPS — Nonreactive
• NLS — Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
• NLS — Nuclear Localization Signal
• NLSD — Nonlocal Spin Density (functional Theory)
• NLSLE — Nonlinear Schroedinger-Langevin Equation
• NLTE — Non-local Thermodynamic Equilibrium
• NLXC — Nonlocal Exchange Correlation (potential)
• NMA — Nuclear Microanalysis
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• NMC — New Muon Collaboration
• NMCSCF — Numerical Multiconfiguration Self-consistent Field
• NMDAR — N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor
• NMDR — Nuclear Magnetic Double Resonance
• NMDS — Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling
• NME — New Molecular Entity
• NMEP — National Materials Exposure Programme
• NMFS — National Marine Fisheries Service (of NOAA)
• NMHC — Nonmethane Hydrocarbons
• NMI — Nautical Miles
• NMIJ — National Metrology Institute of Japan
• NMJ — Neuromuscular Junction
• NMMAPS II — The National Morbidity
• NMMO — N-methylmorpholine N-oxide
• NMMSS — Nuclear Materials Management And Safeguards System
• NMN — Nicotinamide Mononucleotide
• NMO — Natural Magnetic Orbital
• NMOC — Nonmethane Organic Compound(s)
• NMOG — Non-Methane Organic Gases
• NMOS — Negative Channel Metal-oxide Semiconductor
• NMP — Nitroxide-mediated Polymerization
• NMP — Nuclear Microprobe
• NMPIMC — Normal Mode Path Integral Monte Carlo
• NMR — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• NMRD — Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion
• NMRI — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• NMSC — Non-melanoma Skin Cancer
• NMVOC — Nonmethane Volatile Organic Compound
• NN-TB — Nearest-neighbor Tight Binding
• NNBI — Neglect of Nonbonded Interactions
• NND — New And Nonofficial Drugs
• NNDC — National Nuclear Data Center
• NNDO — Neglect of Nonbonded Differential Overlap
• NNI — National Nanotechnology Initiative
• NNLO — Next-to-next-to-leading Order
• NNLS — Non-negative Least-squares
• NNRTI — Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• NO — Natural Orbital
• NOAA — National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
• NOAEL — No Observable Adverse Effect Level
• NOAO — National Optical Astronomy Observatories
• NOBIC — Near-field Optical Beam Induced Current
• NOC — Nonionic Organic Contaminants
• NOD — Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand
• NOD — Nonobese Diabetic
• NODA — Notice of Data Availability
• NODC — National Oceanographic Data Center (Washington
• NODP — National Oceanic And Deposition Program