1. Decrease in intensity of a signal, beam, or wave as a result of absorption of energy and of scattering out of the path of a detector, but not including the reduction due to geometric spreading, i.e., the inverse square of distance effect.
For the purists, there are about 145 copper cents / pennies in a pound. On the other hand, post 1982 zinc cents which have a copper plating over a much softer, much lighter zinc planchet. So there are about 180 zinc cents / pennies per pound. Those numbers of pennies per pound are of course for new, uncirculated, zinc or copper cents. When minted, new copper cents weigh about 3.11 grams each and new zinc cents about 2.5 grams each and that is our basis for the number of pennies in a pound. However, once they are put in circulation, they start to ware thinner and thinner.
If all of the copper wiring in an average car were laid out, it would stretch 0.9 miles (1.5 km), according to the USGS. Pennies were made of pure copper only from 1783 to 1837. For most of the coin's history, it has been made of bronze (95 percent copper, with 5 percent tin and zinc). Today, pennies are 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper. People need copper in their diets.