image of a cast iron skillet with copper pennies glued to the bottom. caption: I upgraded my cast iron skillet. Since copper is a better conductor I glued a bunch of pennies to the bottom. this thing really cooks now!
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

Brass is an alloy where the two metals are melted together, the pennies are a zinc core with a thin copper coating. Think of the former as a chocolate/vanilla swirl and the latter as a vanilla cone dipped in chocolate but ya know, with chemistry magic going on

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