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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
monotropy /məˈnɒtrəpi/

▶noun Chemistry the existence of allotropes of an element, one of which is stable and the others metastable under all known conditions.

– derivatives
monotrope noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: from mono- + Gk tropē ‘turning’ + -y3.

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