JEE Main Chemistry question

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The ability of a given substance to assume two or more crystalline structure is called [Manipal 2005]

(A)Amorphism
(B)Isomorphism
(C)PolymorphismCorrect
(D)Isomerism

Answer: (C)

Solution

When one chemical substance is capable of crystallising into two or more distinct crystal structures (for example, calcite and aragonite forms of CaCO, or diamond and graphite forms of carbon), the phenomenon is called polymorphism. Amorphism

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