allotropize

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

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