[TheForge] Hobo Nickels

[Paul N]

The coins don't lose mass. They are reduced in diameter, but get 
thicker. Because the forces are usually pretty symmetric, the coin 
pretty much keeps its shape. IIRC, they don't always "turn out". They 
are sometimes badly distorted. Those go to the scrap pile....

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Coin "shrinking" now!?  Has anyone tried weighing the coins before and
> after "shrinking"?
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> The only way these coins actually shrunk without losing mass is for
> some of their mass to have been converted to neutronium.  If that
> works, then let's see about cold fusion next.
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> I can shrink a coin by dropping it in the appropriate acid.  Actually
> does a better job than what I see on that page - though most of the
> shrinking is in thickness, not diameter.  THAT is clearly a case of
> etching.
>
> I expect that most of the coin is being blasted away along with the
> coil, and it's a result of the mechanism of blowing away that the
> image is still visible on the remains.
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> Bruce
> NJ
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