Incredible Facts
Select topics from the contents below to find out some fascinating and incredible facts about them!
- Animal senses
- Are you Paying Attention?
- Computer Science Unplugged
- Captain Cook's First New Zealand Voyage
- Captain Cook's Second New Zealand Voyage
- Crystals
- Glassblowers
- Incredible Vision
- Incredibly Boney Bones
- Life on the Rocky Shore is Hard!
- Light Metals Transporting the World
- Life on Mars
- Why did the Moa grow so large?
- What is Colour Blindness?
- Slime
- Sport and Exercise
- The Internet
- Antarctica
Glassblowers
Why do we use glassware for scientific experiments?
- You can see what you’re doing! Sometimes very helpful!
- In general chemicals don’t attack or damage the glassware
- In most circumstances heat or cold doesn’t bother the glassware
- Glass equipment will not contaminate your experiment
- Scientific glassware is non-conductive and can be used to insulate
- All this and it’s reworkable and recyclable too!
Can you think of another material that can do all these things?
Did you know?
- That the molten glass is about 1200 degrees C when we work it
- That it takes 5 years to train to be a scientific glassblower
- That little burns hurt a lot!