Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile in public science discourse:
"We insert emission control technology into stacks in power plants, and those technologies, sort of, chew up pollution before it reaches the atmosphere…"
Dr Eloise Marais
Dr Eloise Marais, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, University College London, was talking on an episode ('Rocket Launch Pollution') of BBC Inside Science
Read about examples of science similes
Many examples of science similes are listed in 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
