A lot of chemistry projects this week! If you boil a cent in concentrated sodium hydroxide and zinc powder, it coats it with zinc and gives it a silver appearance. And then if you heat it in a bunsen burner flame the zinc mixes with the copper surface and turns gold.
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1964 silver penny
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