The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allotropic \Al`lo*trop"ic\ ([a^]l`l[-o]*tr[o^]p"[i^]k), Allotropical \Al`lo*trop"ic*al\ (-[i^]k*al), a. [Cf. F. allotropique.] Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv.
Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.
Wiktionary
a. (context chemistry English) Describing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
WordNet
adj. of or related to or exhibiting allotropism; "carbon and sulfur and phosphorus are allotropic elements" [syn: allotropical]
Usage examples of "allotropic".
Vast as that field was, it could not encompass the whole fleet, but half of the lip of the gigantic cone soon disappeared, its component vessels subsiding into a sluggishly flowing stream of allotropic iron.
Soon there was a terrific explosion as the pent-up air of the planetoid broke through its weakening container, and the sluggish river of allotropic ion flowed in an ever larger stream, ever faster.
No missile this, but a capsule containing a full ton of allotropic iron, which would be of more use to the Nevian defenders than millions of men.
And now the Nevian defenders of the Third City had seemed and were employing the vast store of allotropic iron so opportunely delivered by Nerado.
With a sigh of relief he pulled his foot out of it, and from it carefully poured into the small power-tank of the craft fully thirty pounds of allotropic iron!
For with the burning out of the generator bars the energy of the disintegrating allotropic iron had had no outlet, and had built up until it had broken through its insulation and in an irresistible flood of power had torn through all obstacles in its path to neutralization.
Oppy and Groves droned on about problems of the isolation of isotopes and allotropic states of plutonium, Joe wondered why he had gone to bed with Mrs Augustino.
In the power room they connected one of the mule pack burdens, an allotropic iron generator, and then went back to the room containing the Combat Control Center.
Pete returned from connecting in the second allotropic iron generator.
However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.
The surface seems to be some allotropic form of carbon, something like fuller-enes.
Above the core should lie thousands of miles of allotropic ice, and then the metallic-hydrogen layer.
This supplies the room with allotropic oxygen and is invaluable in treating diseases of the lungs and air passages.
Oxford in 1865, and is chiefly known for his investigations on the allotropic states of carbon and for his discovery of graphitic acid.
As head of the Triplanetary Service he took a leading part in the brief war with the Nevians, a race of highly intelligent amphibians who used allotropic iron as a source of atomic power.