allotropicallyadv.
/aləˈtrɒpᵻkli/, /aləˈtrəʊpᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌæləˈtrɑpək(ə)li/ Chemistry.
In an allotropic manner; as regards allotropy. Also figurative.
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allotropically1854
1854 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 14 363 Such curious results as these can hardly be explained without supposing that the nascent elements are allotropically active, and that they lose this condition and become passive soon after their liberation from a compound.
1895 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1894 24 186 The gold which is thus allotropically indifferent to mercury is in a condition in which it is readily attacked by such reagents as chlorine and potassic cyanide.
1910 W. H. Warren Engin. Constr. in Steel & Timber (ed. 2) i. 49 The critical points are said to define the temperature at which the iron changes allotropically.
1995 S. Rachman in S. Rosenheim & S. Rachman Amer. Face E. A. Poe iii. 62 When Poe plagiarizes he does not so much leave smoking guns as take up the themes of plagiarism allotropically.
2004 M. H. Wu et al. in Proc. Internat. Conf. Shape Memory & Superelastic Technol. (SMST-2003) 81 Unalloyed titanium transforms allotropically from body-center-cubic (bcc) β phase to hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) α phase upon cooling through the β transus temperature of 882°C.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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