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    of the classical alchemist shows by turning and ordinary penny into “silver” and then “gold.” Chemically speaking‚

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    about why our beloved penny should be removed from the currency system. We have all spent countless times digging through our wallets searching for change and waiting for our grocer or barista to give us back the meaningless pennies that will most likely end up in a tip jar or a penny tray. Sereno not only states that the penny no longer has value to society‚ but is more so of an annoyance to the US Mint system. I believe that society can most certainly do without the petty penny‚ regardless of the

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    cause a shift in personality‚ and there is change in the characters over time. “The thing in the forest” shows the effects trauma has on kids and how they have changed over the years. In the story‚ Penny is a very logical character. She depends on the facts‚ not fantasy. By the end of the story‚ Penny becomes a different person than she was in the beginning. In the beginning‚ she was a young girl. Losing her father‚ and then eventually losing her mother

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    of pasta noodle would hold the most pennies if we were to tape them to two stools 16 cm apart‚ dropping pennies into a cup tied around the noodle? Expiremental Variables - We will be able to identify the mass of a penny and how it can test the strength of a pasta noodle as a result of the downward pull of gravity on the penny. Test Variable: The type of noodle is what I’d be changing throughout the process Outcome Variable: I would be observing how many pennies each noodle could hold counting every

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    DETERMINATION OF % COMPOSITION OF PENNIES USING REDOX AND DOUBLE DISPLACEMENT (PRECIPITATION) REACTIONS Pre- Lab 8 Objective: The purpose of this experiment is to determine the percent composition of pennies using oxidation-reduction and double displacement reactions as well as titration techniques. We will take a post 1982 penny and place in a strong acid dissolving the zinc core and leaving behind the copper coating. We will figure out the percent composition from the mass of copper and zinc using

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    (drop by drop) onto a penny. Thenumber of water drops that can fit on a penny will surprise you. Question: How does soap affect the water’s surface tension? Hypothesis: I think that the surface tension of soapy water will be less than that of freshwater because H 2 0 has strong polar bonds‚ and when water is mixed with soap the polar bonds which help to bind the water together are weakened‚ thus lessening the surfacetension. Materials: pipette‚ liquid soap‚ water‚ beakers‚ penny‚ graduated cylinder

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    Experiment 8 Determination of Percent Composition of Pennies Using Redox and Double Displacement (Precipitation) Reactions Objectives: The lab experiment will consist of oxidation-reduction and double displacement reactions as well as titration techniques. All these components will be used in order to determine the percent composition of pennies. In conducting redox and double displacement we are able to analyze a penny and figure out the chemical composition of the product. The experiment

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    “Wake up!” yelled a 12-year-old girl named Zoe who is trying to awake her sister. Zoe’s sister’s name is Penny who is 7 years old. Both of them live in China at the border of Hangzhou city. Penny and Zoe’s mom as known as Mrs. Carelona is Chinese and their father as known as Mr. Carelona is American. Zoe yelled again “wake up!” But Penny was in a deep sleep. Zoe grabbed Penny’s nightdress and started shaking her hard. It is early morning- 7:00am and Zoe tiptoed across the hall silently‚ to the living

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    using the character Penelope (Penny) Wain. Penny works as a ship designer in a mainly male shipyard. There are few women in the ship designing field and some men do not approve of Penny’s position in the shipyard. Simon Perry‚ an employee at the shipyard‚ admits to Penny‚ “How the likes of you works in a place like this beats me . . . It ain’t natural for a woman to be smart at this sort of work.” (MacLennan‚ 13) Not only does Simon find it difficult to believe that Penny actually works at the shipyard

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    of copper in a copper-clad penny and the thicknes of the copper layer on the copper-clad penny. After 1982‚ copper coating has been used in the creation of the penny because the cost of pure copper has increase to the point that the amount needed t omake a penny cost far more than the actual value of the penny. This lab allowed us to see just how much copper coating was used in a particular penny. Not knowing the about information‚ my original hypothesis was that the penny would contain a great deal

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