Definitions for allotropies

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allotropies al·lot·ro·py

Spelling: [uh-lo-truh-pee]

IPA: /əˈlɒ trə pi/

Allotropies is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1369 anagrams from letters in allotropies (aeillooprst).

Definitions for allotropies

noun

1. a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.

Origin of allotropies

First recorded in 1840-50; allo- + -tropy

Examples for allotropies

Thus carbon occurs as the diamond, and as charcoal and plumbago, and is therefore regarded as a substance subject to allotropy.

allotropy has turned the eyes of many back to the remoter past.

This would be quite in accordance with the chemical notion of allotropy.

And this hypothesis is entirely in harmony with the phenomena of allotropy.

Before leaving this phase of inorganic chemistry, we may mention other historical examples of allotropy.