2006-07-21 01:18:55 · 5 answers · asked by vin 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
To make nickels. A nickel is 5 pennies, there are your 5 properties.
2006-07-21 01:21:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 for a coke in a soda machine.
5 for a piece of gum
1 for 3 minutes at a parking meter
18 for a cheeseburger at McDonalds
640,000 for a new Porsche
They are silver color
They now have 3 different images of Thomas Jefferson on them.
They have smooth edges
They have 3 different obverse images.
They used to be made out of silver.
2006-07-21 08:23:53 · answer #2 · answered by cirestan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 pennies
1/20 dollar
1/2 dime
1/5 quarter
1/10 fifty cent piece
spending, saving, throwing at somebody, giving to a homeless person, making a wish at a wishing well.
2006-07-21 08:23:08 · answer #3 · answered by a_poor_misguided_soul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard, corrosion resistant, malleable, conductive, and non-ferrous. Used on railroad track plating, nickels, of course, plating neodymium-iron-boron magnets, etc, etc. Why?
'nuff said?
2006-07-21 08:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a read of it yourself on the wikipedia
2006-07-21 08:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋