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• Like an airplane, an insect can roll around its longitudinal axis, pitch around a horizontal axis perpendicular to its direction of flight or yaw around a vertical axis.
• Because of the motion of the liquid, the ball rotates on (or about, or around) an axis.
• The molecule turns (or rotates, or spins) about (or around, or on) its axis.
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