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Found this in the reject bin today. Non-magnetic, seems heavier than al-loo-min'-ee-um (as our British friends say)

LOL Actually that is the correct pronunciation of the original word. When I was a kid The "Alcoa Hour" was on television, sponsored by Alcoa Aluminium. and that is how the announcer said it.

It has since been changed due to Americans being to lazy to learn the word correctly.

As far as the coin goes: just another chemistry experiment. Many threads on this.

No chemistry on this one. It's bigger than a penny, but not flattened or stretched.

No, not chemistry but PHYSICS expiriment! Somebody got a hold of Rick Moranis's shrink machine.

Is it WAM?

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:Is it WAM?

That was my first thought!

Alright, alright...I'll go check

Nope.

Morsecode wrote:Nope.

SHOOT!

Z00 wrote:LOL Actually that is the correct pronunciation of the original word. When I was a kid The "Alcoa Hour" was on television, sponsored by Alcoa Aluminium. and that is how the announcer said it.

It has since been changed due to Americans being to lazy to learn the word correctly.

False. Aluminum and aluminium are separate spellings, not just separate pronunciations, and aluminum is the older spelling. That's what the discoverer of the element chose to name it, but it was changed to aluminium in British to be more consistent with most other elements, although there are others that end in -um (platinum comes to mind).

Morsecode wrote:Found this in the reject bin today. Non-magnetic, seems heavier than al-loo-min'-ee-um (as our British friends say)

al-yoo-min-ee-um, actually.

When I was growing up, we called it "beer cans."

This was done using a copper cleaner. I thought I had something special when I found one in a roll too. They soak it and it changes the metals in the coin so it flattens out and expands the coin.