Pennies may have been useful several years ago; however‚ now they are inconvenient and obsolete. As an American citizen who pays with U.S. currency almost every day and almost every day‚ inconvenienced by the use of pennies. Pennies make even less sense provided the fact that the United States Government has made such a large amount of pennies that the materials used to make pennies are worth more than a penny itself. Other countries have already done this and it is working out well for them‚ therefore
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Percent Copper and Formula of a Copper Compound Sofia Economides Date Preformed: 3/19/2012 Date Submitted: 3/26/2012 Lab Partners: Anita Smith‚ Taylor Bell‚ Derek Bourgeois 1. Purpose a. To determine the percent of copper and the formula weight of a copper compound. 2. Introduction a. Magnesium is a very active metal which can reduce copper (II) ions in a weight sample of a compound to metallic copper. The reduction of copper ions in a compound to a copper metal
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------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT ------------------------------------------------- The copper reaction experiment was demonstrated by adding the reagents like 16M HNO3‚ Distilled water‚ 6M NaOH‚ 6M H2SO4‚ Acetone‚ Zinc metal and Methanol into the beaker with the copper wire. The experiment was also demonstrated to observe how copper reacts while different reagents were being added. It was also demonstrated to practice the common laboratory techniques such as methods
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There are four major factors that often contribute to the formation of hydrothermal copper porphyry: 1) readily available mineralizing fluid solutions that dissolve and transport metals‚ 2) openings in rocks which allow permeable flow of hydrothermal fluids and the metals that they transport in solution‚ 3) available sites within the fractured rocks which allow for deposition of the minerals from solution‚ and 4) the requisite chemical reactions that contribute to that deposition (Bateman‚ 1967)
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walked past a penny on the ground or carelessly dropped it on the floor and not picked it up‚ thinking that a penny is not worth your time. The Canadian mint produces nearly one billion pennies a year and sets them off for circulation where most of them will spend their time on the streets or collected in jars. The Royal Canadian Mint says it costs only 0.7 cents to make a penny but if you factor in other costs such as shipping the pennies to banks then it could add up to 4 cents per penny. Surely we
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Should Pennies be a Valid Currency? How many people keep their pennies compared to how many people just toss them in the leave one/take one trays at the gas stations or tell a cashier to keep the change? Is the cost of making a penny worth it? According to the US Mint‚ it costs 2.41 cents to make a penny. It costs two and a half times more to make the penny than the coin is worth. In most cases‚ businesses can round up or down to the nearest five cent with it not affecting their tills drastically
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Lincoln Penny There are changes from small to big to the Lincoln penny. Over the years‚ there were several reasons for changes made to the Lincoln penny. This included changes in its appearance and in its make-up. According to the passage‚ the Lincoln penny had the initials of the designer‚ Victor D. Brenner on it. Americans complained the initials were too big and needed to be removed. This resulted in them removing them and later putting them back on‚ just smaller. Nowadays pennies from 1909
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Son‚ Father and the Penny Pete is a naive protagonist in the story “Penny in the Dust” by Ernest Buckler. When Pete was being imaginative playing with the penny in the dust‚ he lost the penny‚ and he had to get his father to help him find it. Pete’s father asked Pete why he was hiding‚ Pete said "“I wasn’t hiding‚ father‚” I said‚ “honest – I was – I was burying my penny and making out I was digging up treasure. I was making out I was finding gold. I didn’t know what to do when I lost it‚ I just
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HEAT TREATMENT OF COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS: Copper and its alloys are widely used in many products that are used in our everyday life. They have excellent properties such as electrical and thermal conductivity good strength. They have high corrosion resistance and fatigue resistance. Copper is a non-magnetic material. Pure Copper is soft and used widely in wires and cables and is extensively used for passage of electricity. Copper is used in the building construction.
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Pennies may have been practical several years ago; however‚ now they are inconvenient and obsolete. As an American citizen who pays with U.S. currency almost every day and almost every day‚ inconvenienced by the use of pennies. Pennies make even less sense provided the fact that the United States Government has made such a large amount of pennies that the materials used to make pennies are worth more than a penny itself. Other countries have already done this and it is working out well for them‚
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