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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Semi-Truck Spills $800K in Dimes Causing Unfathomably Annoying Cleanup

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Semi-Truck Spills $800K in Dimes Causing Unfathomably Annoying Cleanup

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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That's approximately eight million dimes, and even despite the help of vacuums, some had to be picked up by hand.

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Are american dimes not magnetic? A magnetic floor sweeper should have worked great there.
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  Nope. Copper and nickel.
  
  “Modern dimes are made of an outer cladding of 75% copper and 25% nickel, with an inner core of pure copper. “
  
  https://www.chroniclecollectibles.com/what-is-a-dime-made-of/

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