Are "mines" a fitting metaphor for "free radicals"?

Asked by Zyx (4170

) February 25th, 2016

I’m not great with chemistry or biology but I was reading about free radicals and thought an easy way to think of them would be as mines. Can you think of a more fitting metaphor? Or a reason mines don’t work as a metaphor?

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I would think of free radicals as a rusting of the body.

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That’s interesting… I like it, it works on any scale and it implies a lot of difficulty.

The mines sort of take away the need to explain apoptosis but they make the cancer confusing, mines don’t turn people into genghis khan (what with the massive reproducing).

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