simulant

Definitions

Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone.

Equivalents

Examples

“Due to its low cost⟳ and close⟳ visual likeness to diamond, cubic zirconia has remained the most gemologically and economically important diamond simulant since 1976.”

“He could invent⟳ a fictional restaurant for you to bite⟳ your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like⟳ Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.”

“The soil sample, called LZS-1, is the latest in a list of lunar regolith simulants of varying quality that have⟳ been developed to help⟳ Nasa and other space agencies around the world prepare⟳ for missions to the Moon.”

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