Making cents.Penny for your thoughts? Make that 1.12 cents. The metals used to make some coins are now worth more than the currency themselves. Nickel nickel, metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C;; b.p. about 2,732°C;; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C;; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. , copper, and zinc zinc, metallic chemical element; symbol Zn; at. no. 30; at. wt. 65.38; m.p. 419.58°C;; b.p. 907°C;; sp. gr. 7.133 at 25°C;; valence +2. Zinc is a lustrous bluish-white metal. It is found in Group 12 of the periodic table. are used to mint pennies and nickels
Nickels is a gambling coin game played with any desired denomination of coins. . These metals are also vital for making popular gadgets, like cell phones and iPods. As demand for these items skyrockets, the price of metals also rises. The U.S. Mint is worried that people might start melting coins to extract the metals. But that would be tough: The coins' metals have high melting points melting point, temperature at which a substance changes its state from solid to liquid. Under standard atmospheric pressure different pure crystalline solids will each melt at a different specific temperature; thus melting point is a characteristic of a substance and (the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid) between 419[degrees]C and 1,453[degrees]C (787[degrees]F and 2,647[degrees]F). Even so, the U.S. Mint recently banned melting pennies and nickels. So for now, a penny saved is still only a penny earned. |
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