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=**THE RUSTING OF NAILS PENNIES AND PAPERCLIPS **= =**By: Robert S.**=

**2011-2012**
The purpose of this experiment was to see if different temperature water changes how much nails, pennies and paperclips rust and how much they rust against each other. The hypothesis was that the nails would rust more than anything else because the others look like they have an extra defense against rust, then paperclip then penny. 3 nails were put in 3 beakers and 1 was put in an incubator 1 was left out and 1 was put in a fridge, and the same with the pennies and paperclips. Then they were taken out and it was determined what rusted more on a scale of 1-10. The penny in hot water was determined to have a rust score of 2. The nail in hot water was given a score of 7, the paperclip in hot water was given a score of 3. Overall the hot water items rusted the most. The room temperature penny had a rating of 0. The nail was given a score of 6, the paperclip was 5, and the cold penny = 1, nail 4, paperclip 1. The cold water items overall rusted the least.
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=__**Improving and Extending Experiment**__=  To extend the experiment we could have added needles, nickels and quarters. To improve the experiment we could take a survey instead of just having one person deciding.

