stable superheavy elements seemed like ghosts

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An example of simile in popular science writing:

"The island of stability and the elements surrounding it seemed like ghosts, and repeated attempts to make them had, like the hint in nature, failed."

Kit Chapman

Chapman, K. (2019). Superheavy. Making and breaking the periodic table. Bloomsbury Sigma.

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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.