ingest. 1. To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach: swallow, take. 2. To take (food) into the body as nourishment: consume, devour, eat, fare, partake. Slang: chow. Idioms: break bread, have a bite.
Therefore, those parts need to be engineered to achieve the same mechanical. strength; however, using aluminium still offers potential for weight reduction. Aluminium is used for body structures, closures and exterior attachments such as. crossbeams, doors or bonnets.
Did you know that plastics are being used to replace more and more aircraft parts? The wing boxes of the Airbus A380 use plastic fibre composites, which reduces the aircraft by 1.5 tons. The aircraft can fly further and carry more cargo using the same amount of fuel, talk about energy-efficiency! Lighter cars with plastics! Plastic is an ideal material for use in car manufacturing. A modern mid-range car contains about 11% plastic material components. That means less weight, less fuel consumption and therefore less CO2 emissions.