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An example of metaphor in popular science writing:
"Orfila was obsessed with the Marsh test, so when he was called in as the expert witness, he dissolved down the entirety of the dead man's body in acid so that he could perform the Marsh test on the resulting human soup."
Helen Barrell (2017) Fatal Evidence. Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the dawn of forensic science. Pen & Sword
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
