Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used in public science discourse,
"Defects are imperfections. You know people are not perfect, that we all have defects, imperfections. Crystals have the same problem, they are not perfect."
Dame Pratibha Gai, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at York University was being interviewed by Prof. Al-Khalili on an episode ('Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want') of The Life Scientific.
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