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How to rip a penny in half

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Views: 47,710 Length: 3:07 Date added: 04/24/08 Rating: A-

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.

Creator Website www.metacafe.com/channels/ARCScience Hosted by metacafe.com
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skyjuice 1 year ago
awesome
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hairycheeseburger 2 months ago
i agree
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shelly2009 2 weeks ago
good video
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Mr. S 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 2 months ago
freak
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Kingddd333 2 weeks ago
Freak? your name is hairycheeseburger.
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bird crick 1 year ago
so i guess this would not work on a pre-83 penny
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hairycheeseburger 2 months ago
idk
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bird crick 1 year ago
bring back the barter system
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hairycheeseburger 2 months ago
what
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Monneyman3 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 4 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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Amie 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 months ago
cool the penny floats!!! gotta try this
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casey321b 8 months 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 2 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 2 weeks ago
yeah i have a ton of 50s pennies. they are way harder than todays
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AngryBabyMonkey 8 months 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 7 months ago
this is so cool 4 sum reason
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Lynniemay 5 months ago
Thanks!
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noelmsp007 4 months ago
tht is so cool
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colin 4 months ago
nothing much else to do with yr pennies. ain't worth nothing.
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Marihuana 4 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 4 months ago
Ahahaha. He just Randomly Has a Gram Scale. ahaha down to the point too.
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hairycheeseburger 2 months ago
awesome!!!!!!
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v0lquete 2 months ago
cool! maybe a new addition to my magic routine...
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Eltro101 2 months ago
note to self: not to leave spoon in hydrocloric acid
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falafax last month
how is concentrated hydrochloric acid a common household material?
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Kingddd333 2 weeks ago
ahahah
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linx last month
F.Y.I. Hydrochloric acid is also stomach acid.
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Kingddd333 2 weeks ago
yeah so we have a bottle of stomach acid randomly in the house ha?
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marcosaralius last month
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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 1 week 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 week ago
this guy must think that we're jobless or somethin !
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gitchamonidoo 1 week ago
o boring i hate this why would you waste my time
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2259000 1 week ago
falafax stop talking about a dead man!!! haha does anybody know what happened?
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