Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used to explain a scientific idea,
"black-widow pulsar [is a] binary pulsar in which the intense beam of radiation from the pulsar (like a fire hose turned on a pile of sand) is eating away at its companion, which is losing mass as a result."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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