allotropism

NOUN
  1. the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms
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How To Use allotropism In A Sentence

  • Other arguments are drawn from chemistry, especially from the facts of isomerism, polymerism, and allotropism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • So, too, some of the alterations met with appear susceptible of no other explanations than that they are reversions to some pre-existing form, or, at any rate, that they are manifestations of a phase of the plant affected different from that which is habitual, and due, as it were, to a sort of allotropism. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • It is easy to call these changes by the name allotropism, but not the less do they confound our hasty generalizations. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
  • We do not understand how the peculiar conditions just mentioned conspire to produce the result; but the whole phenomenon seems to be mysteriously connected with ozonized oxygen, and is undoubtedly another phase of that obscure subject, allotropism, to which we alluded in a previous lecture. Religion and Chemistry
  • Perhaps they have not studied the mystery of allotropism in the emotions of the human heart. Elsie Venner
  • We do not understand how the peculiar conditions just mentioned conspire to produce the result; but the whole phenomenon seems to be mysteriously connected with ozonized oxygen, and is undoubtedly another phase of that obscure subject, allotropism, to which we alluded in a previous lecture. Religion and Chemistry
  • This remarkable phenomenon, which has been fully recognized only of late years, has been called by chemists allotropism, * and the diamond, plumbago, and charcoal are different allotropic modifications of the element carbon. Religion and Chemistry
  • These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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