Zinc was used in the wheels and the batteries of the Moon Buggy. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or Lunar Rover was a Zinc-Silver battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo Program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972.
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‘Zinc in the Moon Buggy…’
Zinc in Space…
When NASA scientists needed a coating that could withstand the extreme temperatures of space travel, they turned to Zinc Oxide.
Zinc and steel producers close in on the next technological leap
for producing galvanised auto body material
Steel has been used to make automobiles since the early 1900s but corrosion resistance features became standard in vehicles beginning in the early 1980s when Japanese cars gained entrance to the U.S. market.
“Fish-plate, Not Being Fishy !!”
Many of us would not know about “Fish-plate” in Railways. .. a little definition how this word has been derived…
‘The Power of Zinc…. in Batteries…’
Alessandro Volta, in the year 1800, did not just invent batteries, he unfolded an evolution…