Allotropize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    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.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From allotrope + -ize.

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