allotropy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek άλλοτροπἱα (állotrophia), from allo- +‎ -tropy, coined by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius.

Noun

Examples
carbon: diamond and graphite

allotropy (countable and uncountable, plural allotropies)

1. (chemistry) A property, exhibited by some elements, of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.

Derived terms

• allotrope

Related terms

• allotropic
• allotropical
• allotropism
• allotropous

Translations

having multiple atomic structures

Catalan: al·lotropia f Finnish: allotropia (fi) French: allotropie (fr) f German: Allotropie (de) f Greek: αλλοτροπία (el) (allotropía) Ido: alotropeso (io) Irish: allatrópacht f Kazakh: аллотропия (allotropiä) Manx: yl-chummey m Polish: alotropia (pl) f Portuguese: alotropia (pt) f Russian: аллотро́пия (ru) f (allotrópija) Spanish: alotropía (es) f Tagalog: kamulkapanan Vietnamese: thù hình (vi)

Further reading

• allotropy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia