Categories: Comparisons
An example of metaphor used in a scientist's writing:
"When a solid is made of a single kind of atom, the fact that it is solid shows that the atoms are all attracting one another. Then each may be expected to collect around it as many of its fellows as it can."
Alan Holden
Holden, A. (1965). The Nature of Solids. Columbia University Press.
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