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語源

From allotrope +‎ -ize.

動詞

allotropize (third-person singular simple present allotropizes, present participle allotropizing, simple past and past participle allotropized)

1. (chemistry) 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.
   • 1888, Thomas Wright Hall, Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity, page 349:

     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.

   • 1893, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, page 168:

     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.

   • 1894 May 5, William Elliot Griffis, “The Translatability of the Scriptures”, in Michigan Christian Advocate, volume 20, number 18, page 2:

     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.