How to Shrink a Quarter WITH SCIENCE!

[Richter]

"Honey, I Shrunk the Kid's College Fund."

[Arafelis]

the coin should be alot thicker than the original.

Or just denser.

YOUR A IDIOT.

I think I missed a meme.  Or something.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

the coin should be alot thicker than the original.

Or just denser.

YOUR A IDIOT.

I think I missed a meme.  Or something.

Maybe chemistry.

[Arafelis]

I think I missed a meme.  Or something.

Maybe chemistry.

Eh?  Part of the inside of a quarter is empty space.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think I missed a meme.  Or something.

Maybe chemistry.

Eh?  Part of the inside of a quarter is empty space.

What part? The copper part, or the nickel part?

[Golden Applesauce]

The shrunk one does look thicker.  It looks like the edges rounded a little.

I think I missed a meme.  Or something.

Maybe chemistry.

Eh?  Part of the inside of a quarter is empty space.

Um, you can't make a solid piece of metal denser without changing its crystal structure somehow, or vaporizing it and subjecting it to enormous pressures.  And I don't happen to know of any metals having alternate possible crystal structures like that.  There's a reason periodic tables are able to list density for metals.  (As a non-metal example, diamond and graphite have different structures and slightly different densities, despite both being solid carbon.)

And the empty space is where the electrons repel each other.  If you actually compressed something enough so that that space shruck, the object would immediately explode in a fit of static electrical potential.  Or make a fusion bomb, if you made it dense enough and were using the right metal.  (Looking at you, Lithium-6.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He must be talking about ALCHEMY. 

[Golden Applesauce]

I guess if you formed an alloy of two different metals, the resulting alloy could have a different density than the average of the two metals you started with.  This is related to how spheres of different sizes pack together (and crystal structures too.)

To see that in action mix .5 L pure water and .5 L pure methanol in a 1 L beaker.  You'll have room left over.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I guess if you formed an alloy of two different metals, the resulting alloy could have a different density than the average of the two metals you started with.  This is related to how spheres of different sizes pack together (and crystal structures too.)

To see that in action mix .5 L pure water and .5 L pure methanol in a 1 L beaker.  You'll have room left over.

Doesn't happen with metals.

[Arafelis]

The shrunk one does look thicker.  It looks like the edges rounded a little.
And the empty space is where the electrons repel each other.  If you actually compressed something enough so that that space shruck, the object would immediately explode in a fit of static electrical potential.  Or make a fusion bomb, if you made it dense enough and were using the right metal.  (Looking at you, Lithium-6.)

No, I didn't mean molecular space.  I forget the metallic composition, but quarters are composed of two layers of material.  The material near that bond can be compressed, which I assumed was because there is actually unfilled space either in one layer (probably the inner one) or at the point of the bond.

Or so my teenage attempts at mad science lead me to believe.  I did not, at the time, use particularly extensive rigour.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Three layers. I already said what metals; nickel and copper. There is no "empty space" inside. You make me want to cry.

[Cainad (dec.)]

This thread makes me want to cut some more pennies in half with tin snips.

It's art, you see. Because I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Therefore I am edgy and artistic.

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The quarters puff up like pillows.  I saw an edge-on pic once.

[fomenter]

dont spoil the fun, they shrink when the aether is squeezed out of them..

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

dont spoil the fun, they shrink when the aether is squeezed out of them..