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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Consistency in crystalline form with variation in chemical composition.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In chem., the property of retaining a constant crystalline form while the chemical constituents present or their proportions vary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

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  • noun chemistry Variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form

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Ancient Greek

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