allotrope
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of allotrope
Vocabulary lists containing allotrope
Chemistry - High School
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Chemistry - Middle School
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Why is there no allotrope of silicon with a graphite structure?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The most common and most stable allotrope of sulfur is yellow, rhombic sulfur, so named because of the shape of its crystals.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
White phosphorus is the most reactive allotrope and is very toxic.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Take all this stuff, for instance; especially their ability to transform iron into a fluid allotrope, and in that form to use its intra-atomic energy as power.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Take all this stuff, for instance; especially their ability to transform iron into a fluid allotrope, and in that form to use its atomic—nuclear?—energy as power.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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