penny melting!!

[opossumgirl13]

we did this in chemistry class. for all of you people who are wondering why they did this, the point is to turn the zinc/copper into brass. you can watch it change colors from copper-colored (obviously) into yellowish with red/purple hues. our penny dripped on the lab bench... it was SO COOL!!

[RobBurtonGuitar]

congatulations, you might have made the most useless video on youtube...

[EdgarRBS]

Looks expensive.

[MrToastOmnomnom]

Should have held the penny with your teeth.

[MrSlyght]

Play, Hear singing, mute.

[salevidebay]

You can destroy (paper or metal) currency if it is yours. It is not illegal. But do not expect to be repaid for the destroyed money. Source: US Bureau of Printing and Engraving Fort Worth. So if you want to melt 100 penny s  that you have laying around go for it. Its yours.

[Ilovetheplatypus]

@salevidebay Actually it's not legal to melt a ton of pennies if you have them laying around. That is a big ole federal offense. If you didn't know; the value of the materials in a penny is worth more than a penny now. On the other hand, you can destroy currency if it is for educational purposes.

[jsmythib]

fighting inflation is illegal...they are like little ingots tho :)

[dragonass56]

well that took a while:P

try a blow torch next

[Child0fTheGreenWood]

@silverbud youre a fucking douche. theyre kids! leave em alone and let them have their fun. i've done the same thing on my electric stove at home. 1 its harmless, and 2, 3 and 4 you are a bitch. rrIh

[MONOPOLY35]

Congratulations, you have deflated the money supply by only 1 penny! When the bill for that flame comes up, it creates inflation again. Voila, nice video!

[godblessamerica821]

u r melting a penny not fighting someone quit with the music and tell us how to do it

[BoyMixer]

If this is a that much of a Federal Offense then everyone of those "Penny Press" Souvenir Machines would be be shutdown. get a life people.

[Midnighter169]

shouldnt you increase the oxygen flow?

[St33l3rs45]

is this illegal

[Lokivoid]

@St33l3rs45

Yes and no, It is illegal to destory currency. However it is Iegal to destory currency for the purpose of education. As for people whining about inflaction and other such non-sense, heres a fun fact a penny costs more to make than its worth in its currency value.

[wendy2212]

probably cost 1$ of gas to melt your penny.

[rcarp711]

Yeah, you're committing a federal offense, whether you wanna admit it or not.

[tapout320]

I could be wrong but im pretty sure what money is in your pocket is YOUR PROPERTY. By law you can do whatever you want with your money, as long as youre not trying to make the penny worth more by changing dates or making it seem like its an error coin then you can do what ever the fuck you want with it. Private property. I see nothing on our currency that says anything about being Govt. property so stop sweating these guy's nuts.

[kurisu925]

My favorite felony.

[airsoftHOBOjoe]

what the hell is wrong with u haters?if they want to melt a penny they can, if u dont like the video then just dont watch, u dont have to fags about it, leave them alone damn trolls...

[mumbleye]

what a waste of time. people are gay

[jacktheripped]

If it's against the law then I due a lot of Federal prison time. I used to use silver dimes to repair copper radiators ;)

[jmaxlee]

You should have done it with a blue flame so its stronger

[nobulax]

I'll have mine medium well, please.

[nobulax]

I have mine medium well.

[Spivias]

if u correctly setup the burner

the blue flame can reach up to 1500 degree ...

could have done it in less then maybe 5min

[campeona5]

The central banks printing money and destroying the purchasing power of your savings should be a federal offence!

[McSpaz626]

lol nice.

blue flame woulda been quicker tho

[KawaitaKokoro]

FADAROL OFENZE QQ

They'll just print/make more. Since they're already making more money then they actually have. >_>

[seals1337]

 i think its a pretty good idea.

[iwant69camaro]

you know you can go to prison for that..... Its called " defacing goverment property"....

[jpthecreaton]

this is internet clutter...

[WoWbob396]

did u know it is a federal offense to melt coins? lol i did that and i didnt even know it was

[LandOfSteam]

Boring!

How long does it take a penny to heat up to the temperature of the flame? 5 minutes? Why?

[jesterpants]

@LandOfSteam Because it's a Bunsen burner in a school lab. You can do it much quicker with a casting torch, but ya roll with what ya got.

[Cunhamatatta]

I'm definitely not trying to piss anyone off; just trying to clear this whole argument up. A science professor asked what I though was the hottest part of a flame. I said the blue part, because I know that the hottest kinds of stars are blue. He said that, in fact, the very tip of the flame is the hottest, because all of the heat of the fire travels upward and the highest concentration is at the top. Again, just trying to offer my experience, not ragging on the video.

[DanJeffery07]

That was NOT illegal. It is illegal to use it in a way to fraud the government, such as scrapping solid copper pennies for their weight in copper, or making it look like another form of currency, such as a dime. This is not illegal.

[fairfrozen34]

what year is that penny?

[skater27048]

thats cool y is everyone whinin lik a bitch about it

[jzlACoSTE]

lol tht shit is cool....why are ppl leaving asshole-ish comments?(you know the ones that are bitchs)

[xtradizy]

Waddup with dramatic music?

[elevatorfreak112]

1 that is illegal 2 someone can't hold the cam steady

[libtechsk8er]

I once melted a penny while holding it with a pliers, and the zinc inside melted, but the copper shell stayed in tact. I kept heating it, and it exploded! I assume I got it so hot that I boiled the zinc, which made it rapidly expand. I burned a small hole in my pants, but I was lucky not to get injured.

[ltjosh10]

destroying U.S. currency isa federal offence

[compwiz00]

@ltjosh10 only if it's done for profit.

[soundspark]

@ltjosh10 Only if done for fraudulent purposes, e.g. selling for scrap.

[jebridges1]

Called this in, the feds are on the way. Perhaps they will burn you.

[Grundalizer]

oh yeah? they have a hot-line for penny burners?

[MrSkate4weed]

@jebridges1

you realize the feds are evil...purely evil right?

[muskrattraper123]

@jebridges1 hey mo fo call tem in on me i burned destroyed any thing u can thank of to destroy a penny ive done so quit bitching and get back to ur moms basement where u belong

[skala]

That was the dumbest video I've seen in a long time. Didn't you watch it before posting it? Or did you really think it was interesting or informative? You should take a bite out of an apple then videotape it and watch it turn brown, that would be more exciting especially if you put another totally unrelated soundtrack to it. Dumb ass.

[ThePeace623]

who gives a fuck about what you say fuck nuts, it was an 8th grade project. they are having fun. why dont you go and shove a dick in it

[ThePeace623]

This is @skala

[jestarsrace06]

waste of time.

[bialzibob666]

ok.... first off the tip of the blue is the hottest part of the flame.... and second of all you haven't let the air in at the base of the bunsen so its burning cool.... pay attention in science kiddies! you might be able to save 4 mins and 55 seconds!

[380Banshee]

Pennies 1982 and before = 100% Cu. Melting point is 1082 degrees F

[Colesusername]

@380Banshee all pennies up to 1996 are made 98% copper in canada, usa is up to 1982.

[codongolev]

it's a federal offense to melt the pennies and sell the metal. I've actually seen the official document that states that it's illegal to deface currency FOR CRIMINAL PURPOSES. if you're just melting it for the heck of it, then whatever.

[stickrpg22]

YA BURN PENNYS they always build up in my walet and buy the way i think the penny is worth WAY mor than the american flag lol

[SuperSexySamba]

By STRICT interpretation it is an offense. I remember my fifth grade teacher gave me grief for flattening pennies on the railroad tracks but really people. The law exists to keep metal buyers from melting down millions of pennies at a time because the value of the metal exceeds the face value now.

[UnkinglyLike]

federal offince or not...melting shit is always gonna be cool =), I doubt its a federal offince...I mean shit if I can burn the AMERICAN FLAG which is worth a lot more to this country, and symbolizes(sp?) this country, Im pretty sure they shouldn't care too much about a fucking penny.

[boi560]

just so you know, blue is like the coldest part of the fire, use the yellow tip of the flame

[markiloth92]

WRONG, this burner is on safety flame, which is shit, incomplete combustion of the fuek characterized by bright yellow flame, the incandescent carbon particles. The hottest part of the flame is the blue part, if the bunsen air ports are fully open the hottest part is just above the blue cone above the nozzle

[boi560]

i can use caps too, WRONG AGAIN ON A NORMAL FLAME THE TIP IS THE HOTTEST

[markiloth92]

Im not arguing with someone who obviosly has no comprehension of chemistry or the mechanisms behind a flame, i stand by my argument the blue parft of the flame is the hottest, this is because all the fuel is being burnt completley in this area, more fuel being burned, more heat. simple.

[sidarthabuddha]

both of you are arguing over osmething really really stupid. i was not the one hoding the penny. i was the one recording. when you're in science and have nothing better to do, you find something to do. and mark, do i need to know every little detail about everything i do(or don't do in this case)you both are proving yourselves immature and childish. go argue on someone else's comment page you losers. jesus christ

[reallysillywilly]

The bunson burner and table look straight out of science class. What scientific principles did you discover? Certainly there must have been at least a pennys-worth of new scientific knowledge that was discovered? What? You didn't log the results down? Now you can't publish your findings in the New Scientific American! What a waste! We can't have our governments currency devalued like that, especially pennies, the most saved coin in the US! And what if this was a wheat-head! :-)

[codongolev]

blue's the hottest. yellow's the coldest. it loses energy on the way up.

[homeostasis4me]

Well...look at you being all smart and educating us......

[codongolev]

anytime.

[eloyADAN]

yeah i was actually confused lol i was just about to say "no blue is coldest duh!" but i looked it up and im still kinda confused because it said that the yellow is just a less air concentrated flame so it creates more soot but at the same time in a yellow flame the atoms and molecules hit eachother ALOT faster so its hotter right??? but it also said that blue is a more concentrated flame but not as much molecules how does that work??????

[codongolev]

I'm not sure; my brother told me that the tip of the inner blue cone was the hottest, and I've always learned in science classes and such that blue is always hotter. I would assume, though, that the tip would be the point where it lost the most heat, so it would be colder. (relatively, of course ;)).

but it doesn't really matter. I mean, the penny melted, and it resulted in enjoyment for all. it's not like they were making a how-to video.

[TJvigilante]

The color of the flame is directly proportional to the temperature of the flame. heat releases light energy with frequency directly proportional to temperature, or wavelength inversely proportional to temperature. Blue has a high frequency/small wavelength, thus shows a higher temperature.

red and yellow flame are colder than the blue at the base.

[eloyADAN]

lol thanks ^_^

[EIectroMania]

@TJvigilante just shut up you nerd geek

[sharinganx12]

actually red is

[ianlolsatyou]

me and my m8s do this at school all the time XD

[YamiPoyo]

Its not a federal offense your allowed to burn a penny for educational purposes look it up.

[Peterthegmtb]

lol cool vid,

I miss bunsen burners, they were great fun when I was at school. People think this is bad, we were making moonshine in our school.

[Doomhammer15]

Cool experiment!

[HorrificMonstrosity]

I didnt even watch the video, I couldnt stop reading the comments of these worthless whiny bitches. You dicks are fucking pathetic, leave the dudes video alone god damn lol.

[sidarthabuddha]

lol thank you sir or ma'am i greatly appreciate a comment that doesn't have any bitching or complaining about how we did this

[silverbud]

you have zero tolerance for people recognizing stupid things? that is a very intellegent method.

by the way, if a teacher was present, she must be quite ignorant. she did not teach you 1. where to put things in flames, 2. that the burner needs air, it was shut. kids at school to prepare for unemployment, sad indeed

[sidarthabuddha]

sir would you be so kind as to go fuck yourself and leave my video be? i mean seriously. all it was was and 8th grade class melting a fucking penny for christ sake. is it really that big of a deal to you that kids have some entertainment in school? c'mon now. if it really bothers you that kids had fun in that video, then go watch one of some kids drowning in a lake or something. L2 stop being an ass and L2 have some fun will ya?

[sidarthabuddha]

easy solution for ridding your worthless life out of mine. sir you are now being blocked. i dunno how it works cause you're really the only ass hole that's continued to be a little bitch about some kid's video. i hope you have a good day even though that dick is stuck up your ass

[sidarthabuddha]

also if you would notice there are coments such as "thanks for letting us do that mrs. benson" and "what class are y'all in?" and the comments that make it obvious that we are in a class room with a teacher. L2 READ EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU MAKE COMMENTS AS SUCH PLEASE

[silverbud]

They teach children, that fire is dangerous. And there are dangers indeed also to adults who do not have knowledge and "just melt sth down".

For example, if your coins were of zinc or tin-alloys and heavily nickeled and coppered, then nothing would happen until the molten tin explodes and the molten metal splashes in your face or wherever.

I saw it happen to a guy who heated a silverplated knife. I warned him , but he did not believe me. He was lucky, it splashed only on his hands, minor burns

[sidarthabuddha]

if it wasn't safe, i'm pretty sure our teacher wouldn't have done it. all this video was recorded for was for entertainment and just something andom to watch. not something to have all you retards bitching and complaining about. if you don't have something positive to say about my videos, take you posts, eat them, and go somewhere else. i have zero tolerance for people like you and landyrover4x4.

[HEAVYSNIPE123]

is it illegal to melt a penny?

[SEXYASSASIN666]

Yes. Any US currency is federal property and can't be destroyed. Just like burning dollars.

[reallysillywilly]

What about burning thousand dollar bills? I light my cigar with one every day!

[grande18]

hottest part of the flame is at the top, and with bunson burners....if you want the flame REALLY hot, you gotta open the hole in the base..

[seanlth]

I always thought the blue part was hottest.

[ugotknockedthefugout]

it is

[landyrover4x4]

it realy is the tip of the blue, i know this as i use it every day at work, also if you heating boiler is orrange flame then it the wrong air mixture

[sidarthabuddha]

i have no idea...it was one of the songs on the list this site provides for you if you want to put on one your video XD

[denyag]

what song is this

[tunnels23]

*yawn*

if it took that long y didnt u ppl use a blow torch?

[mackok12]

Nice dramatic music! go james!

[mycoid]

is this in a school?

Can that kid in red stick his face any closer to the penny?

where are the safety glasses???

arghhh!!!!

[PFCRoessner]

that could have been accomplished a lot quicker with more oxygen.

[jthe54]

this is not a federal offense unless you used the metal from the pennie to generate a profit

[itzjesusbxtch]

you need to adjust the O2 intake bcuz there is too much yellow flame, not enough blue.

[junkymagi]

0-o

It's a bunsen burner, it's using atmosphere oxygen, not bottled pure oxygen, no way to adjust.

[infector101]

junkymagi,

there is a way to adjust the air intake, i'm a chemistry major in college, i use them all the time, you can have a limp pussy yellow flame, or a strong blue flame. A fun fact here: the tip of the flame is the hottest part not the base.

[landyrover4x4]

no you twat, let me know where yo teach so i can make sure my kids dont go !! the hottest part of the flame is the tip of the blue part. fukin twat, either know all or know fuck all !! talkin shit.

[sidarthabuddha]

dude i don't want posts like this on my videos. if you're gonna bitch and complain about an 8th grade class doing something totally harmless and yell at ME, one of the STUDENTS not TEACHERS, about this? i think not! take your comments, shove em, and watch something worth your precious time ass hole

[sidarthabuddha]

i have no idea. i just got it off the list it shows when you go to edit your video

[Quinn4String]

What song is that?

[Slackmaster9]

@Quinn4String

I wish I knew! Do any of you viewers know what the background song is, and who performs it?

[danwarlock]

haha nice

[Horse125]

Poor penny :(

[Icy790]

ya miss binson is really ausome like that sucker

[Flame22895]

thanks for not letting us do this Ms. Benson

[paker51]

Not yet a federal crime.

[bandychck1]

Where are yall at??

I heard cody so what class r yall in?

[bandychck1]

OMG That is cool!!