Coca Cola contains a very important chemical substance called Phosphorous Acid.
The chemical formula is H3PO4.
This means that this chemical is formed out of 3 atoms of Hydrogen (H3), 1 atom Phosphorous (P) and 4 atoms of Oxygen (O4). A collection of atoms you call a molecule, in this case a Phosphorous Acid molecule.
When you add water to this acid, Coke is a lot of water, the molecule will break apart, into 4 pieces.
H+ H+ H+ (3H+) and PO43-. Those pluses and minusesare the electrical charges that hold together the molecule. We have 3 pluses and 3 minuses. when you add a plus and a minus you get zero, this means balance, order, rest in chemistry, but water weakens the electrical forces by about 80 times. So the molecule falls apart, except for the PO43- part, that's even too strong for water.
Phosphorous is very important for humans, it makes it you can think!
Now metals (as in coins) can react with strong acids like our H3PO4 or to be more accurate, with the H+ atom. (an atom with a + or a -, we must call an ion) the H+ ion will "get" a minus particle, called an Electron, from the metal, which then becomes a Metal+ ion.
This Metal+ ion will not stick to the coin any more, and comes of with the dirt from the coin on it.
There is also a second process going on giving the Phosphorous Acid access to the metal of the coin.
Most of the time the stuff that makes the coins dirty are fat (fatty acids or lipids) and oxides (rust).
Well Phosphorous Acid can deal with that too. It will break down the fat and reduce the oxides.
The third process
The bubbels in the Coke (Carbondioxide) will bubble the dirt more lose.
The H+ ions getting the Electrons will eventually cling (they are stronger than water too) together and form Hydrogen gas(H2) , this gas will also bubble the dirty away.
Nothing really. i conducted the experiment and nothing happened really. all that happened was that they turned colors a little, oh and they were cleaned a little but not much. that's it really.
what is cocacola's aim in business?
No, it is not.
The acids in soda clean off coins.
Very good taste of cocacola makes ait a quality product.
Because its acids clean the penny
Yes mountain dew can clean a penny because there are acids in the formula. towards the penny and an acid can clean a pennny..You can also use toothpaste on a cottan ball or ketchup. Using an acid to clean a penny will destroy the collecting value of the coin.
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No, you do not clean coins. Cleaning coins will only damage their value. If you feel you must clean a coin, take it to a coin dealer and see what he recommends to clean the coin, however, they will recommend you not to clean it. Coins potentially worth hundreds of dollars have been brought down to selling them for scrap because people have cleaned them! Do not clean coins!
You don't. You don't EVER clean a gold coin and you don't clean a silver coin. Cleaning ruins the value of coins! If it has any collector value at all it will be demolished by a cleaning. Cleaning can take a $100 coin into a $10 coin. It will never, ever improve the value of the coin unless you literally dug it out of the ground. Do not clean coins.
No, you do not clean coins. Cleaning coins will only damage their value. If you feel you must clean a coin, take it to a coin dealer and see what he recommends to clean the coin, however, they will recommend you not to clean it. Coins potentially worth hundreds of dollars have been brought down to selling them for scrap because people have cleaned them! Do not clean coins!
lemon juice will clean a coin great. But don't use it if the coin is valuable or collectible, that will lower the value. hope this helps. Brian