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An example of metaphor in public science discourse:
"And there are fossils that make, the are kind of, they are little green algae, they're microscopic, and they make little jackets of biopolymer which is almost chemically indistinguishable from polyethylene."
Prof. Sarah Gabbott (Professor of Palaeontology, University of Leicester) was talking on an episode ('Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish') of BBC's 'Start the Week'
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
