cooled charcoal eats up gas molecules

Categories: Comparisons

An example of a metaphor used to explain science:

"If only I had some liquid hydrogen…as charcoal cooled in it eats up almost every molecule of gas it can get at."

Henry G. J. Moseley

Henry G. J. Moseley {1887 – 1915, physicist}

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.