monotrope

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Noun

monotrope (plural monotropes)

  1. (botany) Any plant belonging to the Monotropoideae.
  2. (chemistry, geology) A polymorph that does not have a reversible transformation into another form; A polymorphic crystal for which one form is more stable than any other form when cooled below the melting point.
    • 2004, Peter York, ‎Uday B. Kompella, ‎Boris Y. Shekunov, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Drug Product Development, page 288:
      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.
    • 2011, Gautam R. Desiraju, ‎Jagadese J. Vittal, ‎Arunachalam Ramanan, Crystal Engineering, page 112:
      Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.
    • 2014, William J. Brock, ‎Barbara Mounho, ‎Lijie Fu, The Role of the Study Director in Nonclinical Studies, page 174:
      These can be differentiated on a thermal scan where an endothermic transition indicates enantiotropes and an exothermic transition indicates monotropes.

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