Penny
Zinc
Zinc noun - A bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende.
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Nearby Words: zinced, zincing
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- One was a normal copper penny and the other was a zinc-coated steel penny issued during WWII to save copper.
Source: Rare Money - In 1981 the all-copper composition was replaced with copper-coated zinc, but the spectre of negative seigniorage faces the coin again today as even the price of zinc now outstrips the value of the penny.
Source: Useful Notes / American Money - A classic chemistry experiment is corroding a penny using hydrochloric acid to separate the zinc from the copper and measure its composition.
Source: Education Through Pyrotechnics
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