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Numisma Pillar of the Community United States 4963 Posts	Posted 06/03/2015 01:49 am You can just make the future generations of your family carry on your work, and then the 90 trillionth guy can sell the copper for melt. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 06/03/2015 02:22 am The best way to collect copper is in electrical wire form. The copper is pure, and it needs to be for electrical conductance. No refining costs, it just gets recycled if you on-sell your hoard. Very fortunate if you can hoard copper in this form, because most copper wire is recycled in huge industrial quantities. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 06/03/2015 4:36 pm You can remove a lot of the zinc simply by melting the cents down. Zinc boils at a lower temperature than copper melts. just melting down the cents will boil off a lot of the zinc. Raising the temperature from there will boil off even more. You won't be able to get rid of all the zinc that way but you should get rid of most of it. Report this Post to the Staff
matttheriley Pillar of the Community United States 1512 Posts	Posted 06/03/2015 5:09 pm Quote: There are, approximately, 1.43x10^21 zinc atoms in a cent. That's about as many stars as there are in 1/10th of the entire visible universe. Plucking one atom out every second, it would take about 45 trillion years. Just like they do in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, I would rather just put 1 copper cent into my bank account and let the magic of compounding do it's magic. Let's see... 1 cent... 0.01% compounded annually...for 45 trillion years...carry the one...equals...My Calculator Broke! But, after ONLY 7,006,074 years the balance in my account would be a WHOPPING $1.80E+302. If I remember science class, that is a 1.8 with 302 zeros behind it! Report this Post to the Staff
52Raymo Pillar of the Community United States 8519 Posts	Posted 06/03/2015 6:21 pm Quote: Plucking one atom out every second, it would take about 45 trillion years. Get two pluckers and you can cut that time in half ... Oregon coin geek.....* GO BEAVS ! ! ! * Edited by 52Raymo 06/03/2015 6:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
BadToTheBone Pillar of the Community United States 1795 Posts	Posted 06/04/2015 08:12 am I save the wheaties when I find them and thats basically all except for errors which I will save tool Report this Post to the Staff
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