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Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. The Environment: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10803.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. The Environment: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10803.
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H List of Acronyms ACS American Chemical Society 3G 1,3-propanediol Dominated hydrocarbon CFC chlorofluorocarbon CHC chlorinated hydrocarbon CIRPAS Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies CMAQ community modeling of air quality DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane DEA Drug Enforcement Agency DOD Department of Defense DOE Department of Energy DOM dissolved organic matter DSIDA disodium iminodiacetic acid EDC endocrine disrupting chemical EMSL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory EPA Environmental Protection Agency EPR electron paramagnetic resonance FDA Food and Drug Administration FOMA 1,1-dihydroperfluorooctyl methacrylate 176

APPENDIX H GC-MS GOME GPC GPS HCCI HCFC HFC INDOEX IPCC ITCZ MTBE NASA NCAR NIH NMR NOAA NREL NSF ORD PAG PAH PBDE PCB PCDD/F PCR PM PM2.5 PNNL ppm ppt pSi SBIR SCR SSRL STAR S VA/lb 177 gas chromatography-mass spectrometry Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment gas-to-particle conversion Global Positioning System homogeneous-charge compression ignition hydrochlorofluorocarbon hydrofluorocarbon Indian Ocean Experiment Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Intertropical Convergence Zone methyl tertiary-butyl ether National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Center for Atmospheric Research National Institutes of Health nuclear magnetic resonance National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Renewable Energy Laboratory National Science Foundation Office of Research and Development photoacid generator polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon polybrominated diphenyl ether polychlorinated biphenyl polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans polymerase chain reaction particulate matter fine particulate matter (smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory parts per million parts per trillion pounds per square inch Small Business Innovation Research Program selective catalytic reduction Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Science to Achieve Results (an EPA grant program) shareholder value added per pound

178 THPMA 2-tetrahydropyranyl methacrylate USGS U.S. Geological Survey VOC volatile organic compound XAS x-ray absorption spectroscopy APPENDIX H

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The report assesses the current state of chemistry and chemical engineering at the interface with environmental science, examines its interactions with related areas of science and technology, and identifies challenges and opportunities for research. The report also identifies important contributions that have been made by the chemical sciences toward solving environmental problems, and emphasizes the opportunities for chemists and chemical engineers to make future contributions toward understanding and improving the environment.

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