Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structurally differentiated form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the forms in which an element having the property of allotropy exists: thus, the diamond is an allotrope of carbon.
Wiktionary
- n. Any form of an element that has a distinctly different molecular structure to another form of the same element.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a structurally different form of an element
Etymologies
- Back-formation from allotropy.
Examples
“Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes usually made of a carbon allotrope.”
“Moving to polytopes or allotrope seem to have values in science?”
“Buckminister Fuller and Richard Smalley in terms of allotrope.”
“A new fifth allotrope of carbon was recently produced, a spongy solid called a magnetic carbon “nanofoam” that is extremely lightweight and attracted to magnets.”
“What happens is that at a certain height in the Jovian atmosphere, the pressure allows a red crystalline form of ice-not the white stuff we splash whisky onto, or the black allotrope down at the surface, or the super-dense variety in the mantle around the Jovian core.”
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“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.”
“Edward, TMS inbox: "0312 Isotope is not the word you're looking for - you are thinking of allotrope.”
“Peter from Aston Rowant e-mails in on that allotrope business.”
“White phosphorus (WP) is a flare - and smoke-producing incendiary device [1] or smoke-screening agent that is made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus.”
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“Carbon nanotubes (aka: "buckytubes") are an allotrope of a carbon molecule which have cylindrical nanostructures.”
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Tropes
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other; different
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