allotropism
- a variation of allotropy.
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Allotropy, or allotropism, is the quality which an element often has of appearing under various forms, with different properties.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
This property is spoken of by chemists as allotropism.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
Carbon is known to exist in several different physical states, thus illustrating what chemists call allotropism, which means that substances of identical chemical composition sometimes possess altogether different outward and physical appearances.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
