having a similar or identical crystal structure, and, optionally, also having analogous chemical formulae
isotypic in American English
(ˌaisəˈtɪpɪk)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to an isotype
2. Crystallography(of two substances)
isostructural and of similar chemical composition
Also: isotypical
Word origin
[1925–30; isotype + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: buildup, chain reaction, decibel, hot spot, turnaround-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'isotypic' in a sentence
isotypic
The two phosphates are isotypic and exhibit alluaudite-type structures.
Ahmed Ould Saleck, Abderrazzak Assani, Mohamed Saadi, Cyrille Mercier, Claudine Follet,Lahcen El Ammari 2018, 'Na1.85Mg1.85In1.15(PO4)3 and Ag1.69Mg1.69In1.31(PO4)3 with alluaudite-type structures',Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communicationshttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2056989018011799. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The two isopropyl-substituted complexes 3 and 4 are isotypic, and so are the cyclohexyl-substituted complexes 5 and 6.
Sida Wang, Phil Liebing, Felix Engelhardt, Liane Hilfert, Sabine Busse, Frank T. Edelmann 2018, 'Synthesis and structural characterization of four dichloridobis(cyclopropylalkynylamidine)metalcomplexes', Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communicationshttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2056989018014895. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Bond lengths and angles of seleno-l-cystine dihydrochloride and its isotypic sulfur analogue l-cystine dihydrochloride are compared.
Carl Henrik Görbitz, Vladimir Levchenko, Jevgenijs Semjonovs, Mohamed Yusuf Sharif 2015, 'Crystal structure of seleno-l-cystine dihydrochloride', Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communicationshttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S205698901501021X. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All other bond lengths and angles and the hydrogen-bonding motifs are very similar in the isotypic structures.
Xiaofei Zhang, Jiangkui Chen, Tongjun Liu, Lujiang Hao 2010, 'Bis{tris[3-(2-pyridyl)-1H-pyrazole]iron(II)} dodecamolybdo(V,VI)phosphate hexahydrate',Acta Crystallographica Section Ehttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536810004861. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)