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What is an allotropy?

What is an allotropy? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (chemistry) A property, exhibited by some elements of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.
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An example of allotropy is carbon, which can exist as diamond, graphite, and amorphous carbon.
The difference in the arrangement of space in the atoms that make up the structure of an element is called allotropy.
Elements exhibiting allotropy include tin, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, and oxygen.
This would be quite in accordance with the chemical notion of allotropy.
Thus carbon occurs as the diamond, and as charcoal and plumbago, and is therefore regarded as a substance subject to allotropy.
And this hypothesis is entirely in harmony with the phenomena of allotropy.

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