gas is a swarm of atoms and molecules

Categories: Comparisons

An example of a metaphor in popular science writing:

"Throughout the Milky Way there is a diffuse gas. A gas, you will remember is a swarm of separate atoms and simple molecules."

Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.), 1960

Read about similes in science

Read about examples of science similes

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.