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
Light Metals Transporting the World
Light metals are widely used in industry of automobile, aircraft, marine, electronics, packaging mainly because their advantage in high strength/weight ratio. Aluminium, magnesium and titanium are all light metals.
Highlights
- Innovative aluminium alloys give 10% weight reduction for each aircraft. This saves 90,000 tonnes fuel and 300,000 tonnes greenhouse gas in its lifetime.
- New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) supply high purity aluminium for the wings of aircrafts.
- The short-lived Mike-class submarine has strong & light titanium pressure hull, making her the world’s deepest diving one (below 1300m).