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Surface tension allows water to form a large drop on a penny before popping and spilling off.
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Why does water stay long on a penny?
it will change the color to brown
Does water stay on a penny because of the ridge around it?
No. Water stays on a penny because of its cohesiveness due to water's strong intermolecular forces. These forces are due to its shape and properties as a polar molecule that is able to form Hydrogen bonds. The effect of the hydrogen bonds on a molecule this relatively small is very significant.
Which object has the greatest density a ping-pong ball a penny water or a duck?
Penny. Put the ball, duck and penny in water. Only the penny sinks.
How can a penny rust the faster?
saltwater, regular water, and vinegar can all speedup the rusting of a penny
How does the juice affect the penny?
that lemon juice affects a penny because when you wash a penny with lemon juice, it's more cleaner than washing it with water
Why does water stay long on a penny?
it will change the color to brown
What property of water allowes so many drops of water to stay on a penny?
adhesion
Why does a penny hold water?
sit the glass of water on the penny
Does water stay on a penny because of the ridge around it?
No. Water stays on a penny because of its cohesiveness due to water's strong intermolecular forces. These forces are due to its shape and properties as a polar molecule that is able to form Hydrogen bonds. The effect of the hydrogen bonds on a molecule this relatively small is very significant.
Which object has the greatest density a ping-pong ball a penny water or a duck?
Penny. Put the ball, duck and penny in water. Only the penny sinks.
What is the control on the penny water drops experiments?
In this experiment, the control group would be the penny! The independent variable is the substance/water on the penny, and the dependent is how many drops the penny takes.
What will make a penny a paperclip a sewing needle and a penny rust faster salt water or plain water?
salt water
What is a water penny's diet?
food and water
Why would a penny sink in a river?
A penny would sink in a river because a penny is made mostly of zinc, which is heavier than water. Because the penny is heavier than water, it sinks.
How does a penny affect water?
Supposidly, a bag of water with a penny in it keeps flys away. However, you really don't need the penny and a half filled bag of water will catch some flys.
Why does a penny hold so much water?
A penny is a solid, flat object and does not hold much water at all.
If you put a flower into water with a penny will it kill it?
Yes because the chemicals in the penny will mix up with the water and the plant sucking the water will kill it.
