8/10 A person stands on a square pedestal whose side lengths are
1.20 m. The person and pedestal together weigh 1.84 x 103 N.
What is the pressure the person and and pedestal exert on the
floor in Pa?

Answer(a)   the matererials that are in contact, the two materials and the nature of their surfaces/// (b)/// the force pushing the two surfaces together, pushing the surfaces together causes the more of the asperities to come together and increases the surface area in contact with each other

The chemical reactions lab we did is typically called a "copper plating lab,  because the acid solution cleaned the pennies and made the copper look shinier;   the acid solution cleaned the paperclips and made them look like pennies;   &   the copper from the pennies was removed, and then added to the paperclips. 

Your answer would be the sun