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An example of metaphor in scientific writing:
"In forming an organic compound, the carbon skeleton clothes itself by establishing covalent bonds to other atoms with its remaining unpaired electrons."
Alan Holden
Holden, A. (1965). The Nature of Solids. Columbia University Press.
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