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  1. n. Plural form of polymorph.

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  • “Rutile is made up mostly of titanium dioxide with two rarer polymorphs anatase or octahedrite, which is a tetragonal mineral of pseudo-octahedral habit, and brookite, which is an orthorhombic mineral, the Doctor explained to her.”

    Update

  • “Like other complex impact structures, Vredefort Dome includes examples of shatter cones, planar deformation features in minerals, high pressure mineral polymorphs.”

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa

  • “Kyanite and its related mineral “cousins,” sillimanite and andalusite, are called polymorphs.”

    Kyanite

  • “The latter four minerals are polymorphs of quartz, meaning that they have the same chemical composition (silica), but different crystalline forms (tetragonal or monoclinic).”

    Quartz

  • “At the other end of the spectrum, some biopsies showed only occasional single intraepithelial polymorphs.”

    J. Robin Warren - Autobiography

  • “Shrugging cheap 2moons dil off 2moons gold polymorphs, removing 2 moons gold curses and breaking buy 2moons gold any movement cheap 2moons gold afflictions, Druids dofus kamas are a buy dofus kamas terror on any cheap dofus kamas PVP buying dofus kamas battlefield.”

    El Orfanato

  • “To lower CO2 emissions, we have to protect women from violence and reduce the tax on small business," one of these political polymorphs tells us.”

    Newsweek: Does This Vote Matter?

  • “They lysocline is not the same as the CaCO3 saturation horizons there are usually two referred to, because the two polymorphs of CaCO3, calcite and aragonite, have different solubilities in seawater.”

    HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit

  • “Interesting though to find the same species precipitating different polymorphs of the same mineral under different water chemistries. welikerocks”

    Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit

  • “It was thought that polymorphs might have difficulty understanding why an alien didn't change shape as often as they did themselves.”

    Simon & Schuster: Doctor’s Orders

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