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The ability of a substance to exist in t...

The ability of a substance to exist in two or more crstaline forms knows as:

A

isomerism

B

polymorphism

C

isomorphism

D

amorphism

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B
Some substance adopt different structural arrangement under different conditions. Such arrangements are called polymorphs and this phenomenon is called polymorphism.
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