Monotrope

Quick meaning: Monotrope is a noun meaning (botany) Any plant belonging to the Monotropoideae.

Meaning

(botany) Any plant belonging to the Monotropoideae.

More Meanings

1. (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.

Example Sentences

These can be differentiated on a thermal scan where an endothermic transition indicates enantiotropes and an exothermic transition indicates monotropes.

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.

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.

Word Forms

• monotropes

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