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enantiotropes

enantiotropes is the plural of enantiotrope.

Meaning of enantiotrope

Noun

enantiotrope (plural enantiotropes)

  1. A crystal that can undergo a reversible transformation when heated above, or cooled below, a transition-point temperature.
    • Since α-carbamazepine is a monotrope of γ-carbamazepine, and γ-carbamazepine is an enantiotrope of β-carbamazepine, the physical stability hierarchy depends on the transition temperature of β- and γ-carbamazepine.2004, Peter York, Uday B. Kompella, Boris Y. Shekunov, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Drug Product Development, page 288

Questions about enantiotropes

What is enantiotropes the plural of?
Enantiotropes is the plural of enantiotrope.

Words near enantiotropes in the dictionary

  1. enantiosymmetric
  2. enantiotope
  3. enantiotopes
  4. enantiotopic
  5. enantiotrope
  6. enantiotropes
  7. enantiotropic
  8. enantiotropism
  9. enantiotropy
  10. enarch
  11. enarched

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