Accidental Plastics

Accidental Plastics

By: Kate Potter

From your toothbrush to your television, Plastic products are used nearly everywhere.  “Plastic” means it’s easy to bend or mould into different shapes. It’s difficult to imagine life without these non-natural materials compounds.

In 1863, a company selling billiard balls offered $10,000 to  any person who could come up with the best material to use and make Billiard balls. At that time the billiard balls were made from elephant tusk ivory.

There is a layer of plastic between 2 layers of glass means that, even if the windscreen cracks, all of the pieces of the glass will stay together.All of these world - changing plastics were discovered by accident.

When scientist do an experiment and when it goes wrong the scientist doesn't say that it went wrong, instead scientists are always on the lookout for new connections.

By Fineasi

Description, Fineasi

My Favourite Person

  

My favourite person is my Grandpa. His name is Ifoni Lahi but I call him Ba because it is the Tongan term for Grandpa.He is 86 years old and from an island called Vava'u in the Tongan Group of islands.

Ba has blue eyes that is taken from his palangi grandma and has light brown skin. His favourite activity is doing his garden and in his garden he hass water melons, apples,tomatoes, lemons and kumara. He likes to keep the house neat and tidy and watch kung-Fu movies. He enjoys the company of the whole family and bonding with them.

My Grandad is my favourite person in my life.