The phrase "alternative example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a different instance or illustration of a concept or idea.
Example: "If you didn't find the first example helpful, let me give you an alternative example to clarify the point."
Alternatives: "different example" or "substitute example".
The equation proposed is a simple and general one for a gas reacting with a solid (alternative example: the carbonation of lime), whose microstructural properties change significantly with the extent of reaction.
Barring that possibility, why not go with Sheila Bair, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDICC), who has distinguished herself by proposing a sterling alternative example of how to deal with the banking collapse?
In the 1990s, an alternative example of a possible theme song (also called "You Only Live Twice" and sung by Lorraine Chandler) was discovered in the vaults of RCA Records.
As an alternative example, hot and cool are typically antonyms (referring e.g. to weather or beverages), except when used idiomatically to describe an idea, a videogame, or a classmate.
An alternative example is given by the case of the diving beetles, Papuadytes.
An alternative example comes from our own group, by identification of a metabolome profile comprising glucose, acetate, alanine and glutamine that could distinguish patients with schizophrenia from control patients, with high accuracy [ 6].
The Congolese government is betting that Adastra will pay taxes and create jobs that are preferable to the local alternative, examples of which can be seen all around the big pile of dirt.
When he argues that politics-as-entertainment began in the prints of James Gillray or Mary Darly (as opposed to in the political jabs of Greek theatre, or the carnival humour of 16th-century religious satire, or any of the countless other alternative examples), he is telling a Very British Story, and one grounded in national pride rather than historical fact.
Trainers were unable to summarize the main points, or go "off script" and offer alternative examples.
Alternative examples include the removal of in-frame stop codons by reverse U-to-C editing.
Readers interested in alternative examples of recent promising methods can be found here [ 5- 8] and a recent review of differential networking can be found here [ 9].
