This page designed print cleanly without extraneous menus, ads, etc. and may make a great classroom handout.
This page may benefit from setting your browser to print background colors.
Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary
This dictionary contains definitions for most chemistry, environmental and other technical terms used on this site as well as many other chemistry and environmental terms.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L,
M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Environmental Acronyms
A
- Absolute Error
- absolute temperature
- Accuracy
- Acid
- Actinides
- Alkali Earth Metal
- alkaline-earth metals
- Alkali Metal
- Alpha Particle
- Ångstrom
- angular momentum quantum number
- Anion
- Antimatter
- antiparticle
- Asbestosis
- Atomic Mass
- atomic mass average
- AMU
- Atom
- Atomic Mass Unit
- Atomic Number
- Atomic Radius
- Atomic Volume
- Avogadro, Amadeo
- Avogadro's Number
- Azimuthal Quantum Number
B
C
- CAA
- Caplan's syndrome
- CAS
- Cation
- Ceiling
- Celsius
- Centigrade
- CERCLA
- Clean Air Act
- Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
- Chemiluminescence
- Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion
- Compound
- Conduction
- Convection
- Covalent Radius
- Cross Section
- Crystal Structure
- Cubic
- Cubic, Body Centered
- Cubic, Face Centered
- CWA
- Clean Water Act
D
E
- Electrical Conductivity
- Electrochemical equivalents
- Electronegativity
- Electron
- Electron work function
- electron shell
- Element
- Emergency Response Guidebook
- Energy Level
- Environmental Protection Agency
- EPA
- ERG
- -eV
- Explosion
F
G
H
- Half-life
- Halogens
- Hazardous Material
- HazMat
- HDPE
- Heat
- Heat of Fusion
- Heat of Vaporization
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
- Heterogeneous
- Hexagonal
- high density polyethylene
- Homogeneous
- Hyaluronic acid
I
K
L
M
- Mass
- Melting Point
- Mesothelioma
- Metals
- Metalloid
- mbarns
- Millibarns
- Mixture
- mol
- Molality
- Molarity
- Molar Mass
- Mole
- Molecule
- Monatomic
- Monoclinic
- MRF
- MSW
- Municipal Recycle Facility
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Municipal Waste Combustor
- MWC
N
O
P
- Periodic Law
- Periodic Table
- Peritoneum
- PEL
- Periods
- Permissible Exposure Limit
- pH
- photoelectric work function
- Photon
- Pleura
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural plaques
- Pneumoconiosis
- polyvinyl chloride
- Positron
- Precision
- Principal Quantum Number
- Proton
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- PURPA
- Public Utilities Regulatory & Policy Act
- PVC
Q
R
- Radiation
- Radioactivity
- rare earth metals
- rare gasses
- RCRA
- RDF
- Recommended Exposure Limit
- REL
- Relative Error
- refuse derived fuel
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Rhombohedral
- RTECS
S
- Second Ionization Potential
- shells
- Short Term Exposure Limit
- Solution
- Specific Gravity
- Specific Heat
- Standard Temperature and Pressure
- STEL
- STP
- Scientific Method
- Stoichiometry
- Superfund Act
T
- Tetragonal
- Temperature
- Thermal Conductivity
- Third Ionization Potential
- Time Weighted Average
- Transactinides
- Transition Metals
- TWA
U
V
W
Environmental Acronyms That Every Solid Waste Management Student Should Know
- BACT - Best Available Control Technology
- CAA - Clean Air Act
- CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
- CWA - Clean Water Act
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
- HDPE - High Density Polyethylene
- LDPE - Low Density Polyethylene
- MRF - Municipal Recycle Facility
- MSW - Municipal Solid Waste
- MWC - Municipal Waste Combustor
- NIMBY - Not in my back yard!
- ONP - Old Newspapers
- PURPA - Public Utilities Regulatory and Policy Act
- PVC - Polyvinyl Chloride
- RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- RDF - Refuse derived fuel
Please Share/Save This Page
Citing this page
If you need to cite this page, you can copy this text:
Kenneth Barbalace. Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary. EnvironmentalChemistry.com. 1995 - 2025. Accessed on-line: 3/23/2025
https://EnvironmentalChemistry.com/yogi/chemistry/dictionary/
.
Linking to this page
If you would like to link to this page from your website, blog, etc., copy and paste this link code (in red) and modify it to suit your needs:
<a href="https://EnvironmentalChemistry.com/yogi/chemistry/dictionary/">echo Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary (EnvironmentalChemistry.com)</a>- 'Contains definitions for most chemistry, environmental and other technical terms used on EnvironmentalChemistry.com as well as many other chemistry and environmental terms.
.
NOTICE: While linking to articles is encouraged, OUR ARTICLES MAY NOT BE COPIED TO OR REPUBLISHED ON ANOTHER WEBSITE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
PLEASE, if you like an article we published simply link to it on our website do not republish it.