Rip a penny in half

Rip a penny in half

Using only one common chemical, completely remove the zinc core from a modern US penny, leaving just a thin copper shell! An amazingly simple, cheap, and stunning experiment. Sure to impress your friends and family.

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skyjuice (1) 1 year ago
awesome
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hairycheeseburger (-10) 7 months ago
i agree
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shelly2009 (-1) 5 months ago
good video
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Mr. S (11) 1 year ago
Pennies made before 1983 are 95% copper. The amount of copper in these pennies is actually worth 2.2 cents!
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hairycheeseburger (-10) 7 months ago
freak
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Kingddd333 (17) 5 months ago
Freak? your name is hairycheeseburger.
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bird crick (41) 1 year ago
so i guess this would not work on a pre-83 penny
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hairycheeseburger (-10) 7 months ago
idk
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bird crick (41) 1 year ago
bring back the barter system
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hairycheeseburger (-10) 7 months ago
what
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Monneyman3 (7) 1 year ago
Could someone help me out?
The Thing at the top of the page says that it is ILLEGAL to do this to a US penny... but i was under the impression that you can do anything with your money because it is just that... YOUR money. Once you have it, you can do whatever the hell you want with it... I thought (this may be from a History Channel program about money), that once its yours you can write on it, burn it, rip it, whatever because it's your fault that you just lost x-amount of money for doing that.
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colin (9) 9 months ago
not your money mate. simply US currency. it's your right to use it, but it ain't worth #$%@.
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SireDoime (1) 4 months ago
True dat, Colin. it stopped being our money when the US Federal Govmnt (before or after WWII) demanded all US Citizens surrender there gold bullion to the nearest bank in exchange for the new legal tender, something called - the Federal Reserve Note. Before this paper money was equal in value to gold bullion. Now it ain't worth the paper it's printed on. And you can take *that* to the bank...oh wait.
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Amie (9) 1 year ago
no its constitutionally prohibited to destroy money

might stem from the romans shaving gold coins

or the flag burning hysterics
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casey321b (8) 1 year ago
cool the penny floats!!! gotta try this
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casey321b (8) 1 year ago
it says 1983 or later wich could be today cuz today is later than that. im wondering is that actualy what they are talking about?
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v0lquete (15) 7 months ago
yah he says that because i've had some pennies that are from the 70's and 60's.
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Kingddd333 (17) 5 months ago
yeah i have a ton of 50s pennies. they are way harder than todays
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AngryBabyMonkey (-1) 1 year ago
moneyman is correct. Amie is wrong. What may have been an old law waas repealed and once you posess your money, you can destroy it or alter it if you wish, unless you desire to transform the money in an effort to pass it off in a fraudulent way. In which case yo ass goes in front of da judge!
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ApocalypticKid95 (2) 11 months ago
this is so cool 4 sum reason
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Lynniemay (-3) 10 months ago
Thanks!
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noelmsp007 9 months ago
tht is so cool
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colin (9) 9 months ago
nothing much else to do with yr pennies. ain't worth nothing.
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Rabid Grunt (2) last month
You're such an idiot. -.-
5 pennies = one nickel
2 nickels = one dime
2 dimes + 1 nickel = one quarter
4 quarters = one dollar
See, pennies aren't useless as some idiots think.
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Marihuana (1) 9 months ago
lol try and use it to buy somthing and watch them crash it in ther hand a then run
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tails04 (2) 8 months ago
Ahahaha. He just Randomly Has a Gram Scale. ahaha down to the point too.
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hairycheeseburger (-10) 7 months ago
awesome!!!!!!
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v0lquete (15) 7 months ago
cool! maybe a new addition to my magic routine...
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Eltro101 (2) 7 months ago
note to self: not to leave spoon in hydrocloric acid
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falafax (6) 6 months ago
how is concentrated hydrochloric acid a common household material?
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Kingddd333 (17) 5 months ago
ahahah
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linx (2) 6 months ago
F.Y.I. Hydrochloric acid is also stomach acid.
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Kingddd333 (17) 5 months ago
yeah so we have a bottle of stomach acid randomly in the house ha?
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marcosaralius 6 months ago
great but the seven year old then takes the remains of the penny examines it and says this isnt a real one now do it with this one you give me for my allowance !
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JCRK09 (2) 5 months ago
Ill just puke in a jar then do the trick ...cool...thnx linx..woot..im awsome...ill post the video
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falafax (6) 5 months ago
stomach acid is technically hydrochloric acid, but only in the sense that michael jackson is a male. stomach acid is diluted with pepsin (enzyme for digestion) and, of course, whatever crap you shoveled down a few hours ago. even if you starve yourself, it still wouldn't work, because the body is designed to stop the hydrochloric acid from burning a hole through your gut. so yeah jcrk09...go knock yourself out. ;)
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slayernguyen (3) 5 months ago
Well, the body is not designed, the mucus surrounds the stomach to prevent it from burning a hole through it, who ever thought that boogers are good ? LOL any way I mean the the whole stomach has a layer of Mucus that prevents the acid from coming out...
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Bandit 210 (-1) 5 months ago
this guy must think that we're jobless or somethin !
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gitchamonidoo (-2) 5 months ago
o boring i hate this why would you waste my time
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2259000 (-1) 5 months ago
falafax stop talking about a dead man!!! haha does anybody know what happened?
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SireDoime (1) 4 months ago
His reply was posted 2 weeks before Mr. Jackson's passing.
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seryozhaishere (-1) 4 months ago
I hope you can go to the 99 cents store after that.
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Laxis 3 months ago
haha freaky xD
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Panzhexin (2) 3 months ago
I would more likely call it dissolving a penny rather than ripping it. The whole penny is not there only the copper portion. Nice chemistry lesson for the day though.
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mrbuttbern 3 months ago
hi maty's
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lalagirl015 (1) 3 months ago
woooooooow
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BigAl20 (-1) 2 months ago
this is cool but how do you get accetone and acid and stuff?
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bouncyjunior last month
ur right BigAl20 its impo girlfriend
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bdelarosa 3 weeks ago
woowwwww thts amazing im doin a science project and i havent came up with any thing but man thats a good one tankzzz:)))))
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Bcope 2 weeks ago
You can turn a penny into one that looks like brass by boiling it mixed with zinc oxide, then directly heating it in fire, then cooling it in water quickly. for those chem peeps, who dont know, that is ZnO2 + heat, which creates ZnCo2, which is brass.
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