Definitions for allotropy

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allotropy al·lot·ro·py

Spelling: [uh-lo-truh-pee]

IPA: /əˈlɒ trə pi/

Allotropy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in allotropy (allooprty).

Definitions for allotropy

noun

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

Origin of allotropy

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

Examples for allotropy

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

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

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

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

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