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An example of a metaphor in popular science writing:
"Chemical elements are made of atoms, and one of the fingerprints of a specific type of element is the set of energy levels occupied by the electrons inside its atoms."
Andrew May
May, A. (2019). Astrobiology. The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe. Icon Books Ltd.
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