Word Meanings - ALLOTROPISMALLOTROPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations. Note: Thus, carbon occurs crystallized in octahedrons and other related forms, in a state of extreme hardness, in the diamond; it occurs in hexagonal forms, and of little hardness, in black lead; and again occurs in a third form, with entire softness, in lampblack and charcoal. In some cases, one of these is peculiarly an active state, and the other a passive one. Thus, ozone is an active state of oxygen, and is distinct from ordinary oxygen, which is the element in its passive state.

• Distinctively
  With distinction; plainly.
• BLACKART
  The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. Note: This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and mantei`a, d
• Black art
  The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
• BLACKLETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• Black death
  A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• Extremely
  In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
• CASESYSTEM
  The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.
• Blackguardly
  In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
• Otherness
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Blackmailing
  of Blackmail
• Oxygenizing
  of Oxygenize
• Blacksnake
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
• Relater
  One who relates or narrates.
• Carbonarism
  The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
• Stateful
  Full of state; stately.
• Charcoal
  Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
• Statesmanly
  Becoming a statesman.
• Distinctiveness
  State of being distinctive.

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