By now, five cents isn’t worth a wooden nickel!They make the pennies out of copper plated aluminum because that much copper is worth a LOT more than the penny is!!All the result of deficit spending gone mad!!!
That’s it, if you were not a liberal when 20 something you were considered heartless, if you were not a conservative by the time you were just beyond the 20 somethings you had no brainless and had all kinds of heart.
That’s because they needed the copper for bullet jackets during WWII. So they salvaged copper pennies and replaced them with zinc ones. It had nothing to do with the price of copper back then and they made no attempt to fake the copper color on the pennies like they do now.
My Dad worked for Dow Chemicals during that time producing war critical chemicals without which we would have LOST the war. Dow had a lot of copper bus bars for the electrical current required to refine magnesium (which was known as “Dow Metal” back then) which was used for airplane parts because of its light weight. The war effort NEEDED those copper bus bars for the same reason (bullet jackets) so they REPLACED them with solid SILVER bus bars made from silver from Fort Knox’s stockpile! The silver bus bars were guarded by the Army while they were in place at Dow!
You refine magnesium by electroplating it out of a salt solution the same way you refine aluminum.
Linguist over 11 years ago
And I want to lose forty pounds !
BigChiefDesoto over 11 years ago
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.” - Robert M. Hutchins
BigChiefDesoto over 11 years ago
By now, five cents isn’t worth a wooden nickel!They make the pennies out of copper plated aluminum because that much copper is worth a LOT more than the penny is!!All the result of deficit spending gone mad!!!
rejoiceitellyourejoice over 11 years ago
That’s it, if you were not a liberal when 20 something you were considered heartless, if you were not a conservative by the time you were just beyond the 20 somethings you had no brainless and had all kinds of heart.
IndyMan over 11 years ago
Back to the strip. At least, Cosmos is dong something with nis nephew, Skylar. Although—with my idea of a fishawk, I had something different in mind.
2Goldfish over 11 years ago
5 cents? try 2 dollars and 50 cents!
BigChiefDesoto over 11 years ago
Okay, zinc. It seemed too light for zinc. I was going to weigh it on my analytical balance to see, but I’ll believe the US Mint.
The IMPORTANT thing is that it ISN’T copper anymore because copper is worth more than the penny is worth by now.
BigChiefDesoto over 11 years ago
That’s because they needed the copper for bullet jackets during WWII. So they salvaged copper pennies and replaced them with zinc ones. It had nothing to do with the price of copper back then and they made no attempt to fake the copper color on the pennies like they do now.
My Dad worked for Dow Chemicals during that time producing war critical chemicals without which we would have LOST the war. Dow had a lot of copper bus bars for the electrical current required to refine magnesium (which was known as “Dow Metal” back then) which was used for airplane parts because of its light weight. The war effort NEEDED those copper bus bars for the same reason (bullet jackets) so they REPLACED them with solid SILVER bus bars made from silver from Fort Knox’s stockpile! The silver bus bars were guarded by the Army while they were in place at Dow!
You refine magnesium by electroplating it out of a salt solution the same way you refine aluminum.