allotropize

Verb

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

1. 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.
   • 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.1888, Thomas Wright Hall, Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity, page 349
   • 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.1893, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, page 168