Saturday, 17 February 2001 - Too many pennies - 3

Posted on 05 Sep 2010

7 comments

Ryan « 19 Jul 2012

These days the useless mass is mostly zinc.

Mike « 05 Sep 2012

Depending on the number of pennies made before the switch, there's a good chance those zinc-cored pennies could combine with the copper coating and solid copper pennies to form a crude type of brass. Or fill the dorm with toxic fumes from all the surface impurities and zinc...

MOW « 12 Oct 2012

But without some kind of alloy or eutectic component he'd have a hard time to melt it with that kind of flame ...

Karmakat « 13 Oct 2012

well i could think about creating "the legendary penny sword" or at least letter oppener hehe

microbuss « 24 Oct 2012

um YES it IS illegal to do this! O.O Also pennies that were made before 1982 (I think) are all copper

Multani « 22 Nov 2012

FOR SCIENCE!!!!

eric b « 25 Dec 2012

i just remembered an old Batman comic book story: the Joker heard someone talking about how Batman had lots of different costumes for different situations (like an underwater costume), so he decided to have lots of Crime costumes! his last one was "little jack horner" and he tried to smash a safe open with a giant penny! (this was in a collection called "the greatest Joker stories ever told) that giant penny has appeared in several more recent comics: Batman has been keeping it in his trophy room!

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Saturday, 17 February 2001 - Too many pennies - 3

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