An example of an analogy used in popular science writing:
"It was long known that this virus [tobacco-mosaic virus], having the shape of long sticks…, is formed by a bunch of long straight molecules of organizing [sic] material (known as ribonucleic acid) with long protein molecules would around it like a coil of electric wire around the iron core in an electromagnet."
George Gamow (1961) One, Two, Three…Infinity. Facts and speculations of science, Revised Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
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