allotrope

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The most common and most stable allotrope of sulfur is yellow, rhombic sulfur, so named because of the shape of its crystals.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Why is there no allotrope of silicon with a graphite structure?

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

White phosphorus is the most reactive allotrope and is very toxic.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Black-lead—or, as we term it, graphite—of which I have several specimens here—is simply carbon—an allotrope of carbon—the same elementary substance, notwithstanding, as the diamond.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott

Take all this stuff, for instance; especially their ability to transform iron into a fluid allotrope, and in that form to use its atomic—nuclear?—energy as power.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)