Links to useful metals websites

Metals
The Copper Page                           all about the copper industry
Metals used in coins
Treasury Dept coin FAQs               answers to all your US coin questions
Sacagawea dollar coin                    details on the design and the special brass used
Archimedes and the crown              gold density is the clue to discovering an ancient fraud
Balancing equations                         easy-to-understand, very helpful.  Try it!
Advanced balancing practice           these are quite a bit harder
Why don't electrons fall into the nucleus?     quantum mechanics answers the burning question
Periodic table                                  click on element for more information
Visual periodic table                        beautiful images and lots of info
The comic book periodic table         fun site, showing elements in cartoon clips
Choose your periodic table              a great variety of periodic tables on the web
Element #118 NOT discovered       scientific fraud?  previous announcement retracted
The elements song                           all the elements, singalong style.  A hilarious tongue-twister
Lyrics to the elements song              print me out if you actually attempt the impossible
Build your own atoms                      cool interactive site, pick correct quarks or it falls apart!

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