Categories: Comparisons
An example of an everyday comparison used to give a sense of scale:
"And they could only do that due to the extraordinary rare earth metal used in the magnets: neodymium. It's this that gives the magnets their power. How strong? Well, a magnet weighing half a pound can support metal the weight of a giant panda."
Episode ('The super magnets') of BBC radio programme/podcast 'The Scramble for Rare Earths'
Read about quotidian comparisons
A document listing a wide range of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors and other comparisons, drawn from diverse sources, can be downloaded using this link: 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts.'
