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stancite

stancite noun: a metastable allotrope of tin.

Noun

stancite (uncountable)

  1. A metastable allotrope of tin
    • Herein, by using the first principles calculations, we discover a new metastable allotrope of Ge and Sn in the staggered layered dumbbell structure, named as germancite and stancite, to be Dirac semi-metals with a pair of Dirac points on its rotation axis.2016, Wendong Cao, Peizhe Tang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Wenhui Duan, Angel Rubio, “Stable Dirac semi-metal in the allotrope of IV elements”, in arXiv

Questions about stancite

What does stancite mean?
Stancite means a metastable allotrope of tin.
What part of speech is stancite?
Stancite is a noun.

Words near stancite in the dictionary

  1. stanchly
  2. stanchness
  3. Stancil
  4. Stancils
  5. stancing
  6. stancite
  7. Stanciu
  8. Stancius
  9. Stancliff
  10. Stancliffs
  11. Stanco

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