Random Analogies
Gold is like air
a: Gold ~
b: air
What: "Gold is like air: it can be recycled and reused over and over again without losing its value. For hundreds of years before recycling became a household word, gold has been reused and recycled to preserve it for other use. Because gold is so often recycled, gold items produced today contain gold that has been around for hundreds - or even thousands - of years."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:06 PM
# 1019 Critique Analogy
A Good Geology Lesson.....
a: Van de waals bond ~
b: post-it notes
What: "Group called mica often occurs in rocks in sheet form. (some sheets held together by van de Waals bonds--very weak. These bonds can be peeled apart. Van der Waals bonds are like post-it notes)"
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Writer: Not Stated
LCC: QE
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Date: May 15 2013 9:58 PM
# 3250 Critique Analogy
a: Yellow ~
b: red
What:
"Yellow is like red; a powerful dominant colour, most obviously representing warmth, sunlight or liveliness, but can also be a very harsh colour if used at its most intense."
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Writer: Tom Lyall
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Date: Jul 7 2014 5:00 PM
# 5855 Critique Analogy
a: methylation ~
b: enormous fire-hose
What:
"Also, it appears that methylation is like an enormous fire-hose spraying methyl groups everywhere in the genome to dampen the ground and prevent any small fires (viruses) from igniting. How much stock can you put in research findings that hinge on the appearance/disappearance of 1 or 2 errant methyl groups?"
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Writer: dendrite
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Date: Aug 19 2014 4:46 PM
# 6121 Critique Analogy
