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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/yeaboi672 on 2024-10-24 21:27:22+00:00.

Ironic because this happened a while ago but any who. I was in my science class and we were doing an experiment to make a penny “gold” (boiling a penny in zinc powder and running it through an open flame)

I was contributing to the expirement and the boiling part went well until we had to run the coin through the flame. I volunteered to do it and I used the tweezers to run the coin in and out through the flame. I let go of the tweezers and the coin was going to fall into the table. My dumb self decided to catch the coin. The absolute rate my fingers just melted. I only had the coin in my hands for less than half a second and three of my fingers were covered in second degree burns. I still wonder what would have happened if I took longer to drop the coin.

Tl;dr: Caught a molten coin and burned myself during a science experiment