allotropic
Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Allotropical
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carbon and sulfur and phosphorus are allotropic elements
List of allotropes Typically, elements capable of variable coordination number and/or oxidation states tend to exhibit greater numbers of allotropic forms.
Uranium metal has three allotropic forms: citation * α ( orthorhombic ) stable up to 668 °C.
The result of this collaboration was the discovery of C 60 (Known as Buckyballs) and the fullerenes as the third allotropic form of carbon. citation The research that earned Kroto, Smalley and Curl the Nobel Prize mostly comprised three articles.
The transuranium metals Np, Am, and Cm are also allotropic.
Steel's base metal is iron, which is able to take on two crystalline forms (allotropic forms), body centered cubic (BCC) and face centered cubic (FCC), depending on its temperature.