simulant

Example Sentences

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Regolith simulants in laboratories provide a practical way to test co cultures in Mars like conditions and to build models that predict how well biocementation will perform.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

There are times, though, when scientists don’t need to go to an analogue: They can bring it home in the form of simulants, or material that resembles the surface of the moon or Mars.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

Down the hall, in the Center for Space Resources’ laboratory, near buckets of lunar and asteroid simulants, was a small 3-D printer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

But, in practice, the agents and their simulants often differ substantially.

From Nature

What a noise," he exclaims, "among the simulants of the various virtues!…

From Sterne by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)