stancite

English

Noun

stancite (uncountable)

1. A metastable allotrope of tin
   • 2016, Wendong Cao, Peizhe Tang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Wenhui Duan, Angel Rubio, “Stable Dirac semi-metal in the allotrope of IV elements”, in arXiv‎:

     Herein, by using the first principles calculations, we discover a new metastable allotrope of Ge and Sn in the staggered layered dumbbell structure, named as germancite and stancite, to be Dirac semi-metals with a pair of Dirac points on its rotation axis.

Anagrams

• cantiest, entastic, nictates, testican, tetanics