Aeolotropic

"Aeolotropic" in a Sentence (2 examples)

An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.

On extending his [Mitscherlich's] inquiry to other aelotropic crystals he observed a similar variation, and was thus led, in 1825, to the discovery that aelotropic crystals, when heated, expand unequally in the direction of dissimilar axes.

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