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Q: What is used to describe the number of atoms in a copper penny?
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The comparison of the number of atoms in a copper coin the size of a penny with the number of people on Earth is made to illustrate what?

that in a copper penny there is one atom for every person on earth.


Does a penny have more atoms than earth does people?

Yes, most definitely, a penny has many more atoms than the Earth does people.A pre-1982 penny contains about 28,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 copper atoms. Or, 2.8 x 1022atoms.There are about 6 billion people on the planet.


How many copper atoms in a penny made of pure copper and weight 2.15g?

2.15 grams copper (1 mole Cu/63.55 grams)(6.022 X 10^23/1 mole Cu) = 2.04 X 10^22 atoms of copper ------------------------------------------


What happens to the copper atoms of the penny in gold penny lab?

basically, the zinc electrons in the NaOH solution coat the copper penny and then when you wave it over a Bunsen burner, the two metals form an alloy (a homogeneous mixture with two or more elements) and make brass, not gold.


What element is found in the us penny?

Copper


What is a 1956 copper penny worth?

A penny.


What has more copper penny or nickel?

PENNY


How many dozens of copper atoms in a penny?

A US 1 cent piece prior to 1982 was made of copper and had a mass of about 3.1g. This is about 0.049 moles of copper, or around 2.9 x 1022 atoms. More recent pennies are mostly zinc (97.5%) and have a mass of about 2.5g. This works out to around 2.2 x 1022 zinc atoms and 5.9 x 1020 copper atoms, so overall around 2.3 x 1022 atoms.


What has copper in it besides copper wire?

A penny


How does one find out if a penny is made of copper or zinc?

You can tell if a penny is made out of zinc or copper by the date on the penny. If the date is before 1982 then the penny is 95% copper. Pennies dated 1983 or later are 97.5% zinc with a thin copper coating.


What zink penny should be copper tracsition year?

did they make 1982 copper penny by mistake


What elements are in a penny?

zinc is 97.5% of the penny and copper is 2.5% of the penny