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An example of a simile used to explain a scientific idea in public discourse,
GH: "it's a very unreactive material, so if you have got some gold and the house catches fire, the gold's there afterwards…"
Dr Hannah Fry (mathematician and broadcaster) was talking to Prof. Graham Hutchings (Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cardiff) on an episode of BBC Curious Cases
HF: "It's like the cockroach of the periodic table"
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