Besides smelling, touching and looking at the physical appearance of a substance, there are other ways to know for sure what that substance is. This is where chemical properties come in. A chemical property is a property of a substance that is observed when a substance undergoes a chemical change. The chemical change is a type of change that also changes the identity of a substance due to breakage and formation of new chemical bonds, as shown in the figure below: The figure shows a chemical change where two substances, A and B, form and break bonds with each other and other substances, C and D.
As of 2014, dimes have the smallest diameter of any U.S. coin and are also the thinnest. A penny is 1.52 mm thick with a diameter of 19.05 millimeters. It weighs 2.5 grams and has plain edges. A nickel is 1.95 millimeters thick with a diameter of 21.21 millimeters. It weighs 5 grams and has plain edges. A quarter is 1.75 millimeters thick and has a diameter of 24.26 millimeters.
This forces the very edges of the penny to push up which is what gives the penny the lip that it has. The size of the penny is very important. The weight of it is 2.500 grams exactly. The diameter is 0.750 inches or 19.05 mm. Finally, the thickness is 1.55 mm. The good thing about coins is that their sizes are always the same for the most part.