Fast Rust
What doesn’t breathe but can’t live without air, doesn’t drink but needs water near, never sleeps and won’t rest much, is stronger than steel, but crumbles at a touch?
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Series: Connected 2013 level 3 - Food for Thought...
Category: Non-fiction
Strand: Nature of science, Material world
Fast Rust
Words by Brownen Wall
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Connected 2013 level 3 - Food for Thought
In this Connected series there are five articles ("Why is the Moon Upside Down?"; "A New Zealand Crocodile?"; "Fast Rust"; "You Can Count on It"; "The Fish Highway").
1 of 5Why is the Moon Upside Down?
The Moon looks weird up here. There’s something wrong with it.
2 of 5A New Zealand Crocodile?
On a scorching hot day in 1989, near the small Central Otago town of St Bathans, a group of scientists were digging in the soil. What they would find would change our ideas about the animals that have lived in Aotearoa.
3 of 5The Fish Highway
There is a maze of water and sewage pipes under Wellington’s pavements, beneath manhole covers and bundles of cables.
4 of 5You Can Count On It
Fa‘aea’s Mum is a meteorologist. She talked to Fa‘aea’s class about sorting and displaying data in different ways.
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