plating zinc pennies

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From: Sally Seebode (sseebode@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 15:20:43 PST 

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From: "Sally Seebode" <sseebode@earthlink.net>
Subject: plating zinc pennies
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:20:43 -0800

Chemistry in the community has an experiment like this without the NaOH.
They use 1 M zinc chloride with mossy zinc and boil the pennies for 5 to
10 minutes. Just did it today and worked on every penny. Pennies are cleaned
with 1 M HCl prior to putting into zinc chloride solution. I assume you put
the penny on the hot plate after plating to make brass?

sally

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