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The same molecule, packed two ways: why chocolate turns white and a drug once vanished from pharmacy shelves

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The same molecule, packed two ways: why chocolate turns white and a drug once vanished from pharmacy shelves

28 Aug 2026 · 8 min read

A solid's properties are not decided by its molecule alone but by how those molecules stack. Change the packing and the same compound melts differently, dissolves differently, and can stop working as a medicine. Here is what polymorphism is and why it costs pharmaceutical companies fortunes.

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