allotrope

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

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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

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

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

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)