Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile in popular science writing:
"The island of stability and the elements surrounding it seemed like ghosts, and repeated attempts to make them had, like the hint in nature, failed."
Kit Chapman
Chapman, K. (2019). Superheavy. Making and breaking the periodic table. Bloomsbury Sigma.
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.
