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Stir until the salt dissolves. Pennies get dull over time because the copper in the pennies slowly reacts with air to form copper oxide. Instant Verdigris! Note: You want to keep the liquid you used to clean the pennies, so don't dump it down the drain! Rinsing the pennies with water stops the reaction between the salt/vinegar and the pennies. Copper Plated Nails Place a nail or screw so that it is half in and half out of the solution you used to clean the pennies. The copper that coats the nail/screw comes from the pennies. Design Your Own Experiments with Pennies More Projects To Try. Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton. Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey. How To Build The World's Best Paper Airplanes.

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Greatest Hits of TED Videos. The Top 10 Best Science Fiction Books. Before the comments fill up with “Why didn’t you include this” and various slights against our personal and professional integrity, this is just a list of ten great science fiction novels, not in order, and by no means the top ten ever produced. ‘Ten of the best’, not ‘the ten best’. That being said, please post up your own favourites, as we’re always looking for new things to read. 10. The Moon Is A Harsh MistressPublished: 1966 Author: Robert Heinlein Awards: Hugo (1967), Nebula (1966), Prometheus, (1983)Buy it on Amazon Heinlein’s elegantly constructed novel evokes some of the finest traditions in science fiction, with a near-future setting on the mongrel colony of Luna, which is preparing its revolution against the tyrannical rule of Earth. 9. . | Kindle Edition 8.

It’s nigh-on impossible to talk seriously about the post-apocalyptic subgenre of science fiction without mentioning Walter M Miller Jr’s A Canticle For Leibowitz. 7. . | Kindle Edition 6. . | Kindle Edition 5. . | Kindle Edition 4. This free photo software enables you to manage and to GPS geo tag your photos and videos. Earth View.