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allotrope

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

One of two or more different physical forms that the same element can take.

"Diamond and graphite are both allotropes of carbon, despite looking and behaving completely differently."

Allotropes differ only in how their atoms are arranged, not in what element they're made of.