allotropize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To change in physical properties but not in substance; to alter the state, crystalline structure or appearance of a chemical while leaving it's atomic composition the same, such as the change of pure carbon from graphite to diamond or a buckyball.
Example Sentences
- "as long as you heat or cool a Chemical be all the guises of Heat and Cold, Local or Cosmical, you can allotropize it, or change the Chemical's aspects and properties vastly."
- "He who would allotropize sluggish oxygen into ozone to a measure of alchemical activity, reducing it to its pure essence (for which there are means), would discover thereby a substitute for an "Elixir of Life" and prepare it for practical use."
- "On the contrary, the Bible is not, in its literary form, a diamond brilliant. It is rather pure gold, which can stand the crucible of acids, the fire and the oxygen. It neither rusts, corrupts nor allotropizes."
Etymology
From allotrope + -ize.