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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 132314, member: 66"]Why? It would only be a problem if you are paying your employees in cash under the table. And even then it wouldn't be a problem because you would still calculate the wages the same way and then just round the final amaount. If there were no cents or nickels and you always rounded the wages up just so they wouldn't complain the worst that could happen would be that you would have to overpay them by nine cents.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, you might try a sugar water solution. The problem is that I don't know how much sugar you will need to use so you will just have to keep trying a more and more concentrated solution until you get the density high enough. I think that the sugar water might work because of the tremendous amount of sugar you can dissolve in water. Believe it or not about 5 cups of sugar can be disolved in one cup of water. I don't think you will have to go that far before the solution becomes dense enough either float the Zincolns or at least let them sink slow enough that it can be used to seperate them from copper easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more you dissolve the slower the process will become. You can increase the dissolving speed by gently heating the solution. Care must be taken though not to dissolve more sugar than the solution can hold at room temperature. Doing so will result in a supersaturated solution upon cooling and if that occurs the introduction of a single sugar crystal will result in the entire solution crytalizing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 132314, member: 66"]Why? It would only be a problem if you are paying your employees in cash under the table. And even then it wouldn't be a problem because you would still calculate the wages the same way and then just round the final amaount. If there were no cents or nickels and you always rounded the wages up just so they wouldn't complain the worst that could happen would be that you would have to overpay them by nine cents. Believe it or not, you might try a sugar water solution. The problem is that I don't know how much sugar you will need to use so you will just have to keep trying a more and more concentrated solution until you get the density high enough. I think that the sugar water might work because of the tremendous amount of sugar you can dissolve in water. Believe it or not about 5 cups of sugar can be disolved in one cup of water. I don't think you will have to go that far before the solution becomes dense enough either float the Zincolns or at least let them sink slow enough that it can be used to seperate them from copper easily. The more you dissolve the slower the process will become. You can increase the dissolving speed by gently heating the solution. Care must be taken though not to dissolve more sugar than the solution can hold at room temperature. Doing so will result in a supersaturated solution upon cooling and if that occurs the introduction of a single sugar crystal will result in the entire solution crytalizing.[/QUOTE]
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