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plural simulants
Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone. quotations examples
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.
2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages
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.
2023 April 25, Dhananjay Khadilkar, “Why scientists are making fake Moon dust”, in BBC
not comparable
(chiefly biology) Simulating, replacing, or having the form or appearance of something else.