Talk:Bottle cap

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[edit] Bottle cap materials

what metal are bottle caps made of? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.47.148 (talk) 12:32, June 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] bottle caps and closures

This subject is in need of editing. Many glass bottles are capped with aluminum or plastic closures. Most plastic closures can be recycled. A range of sport caps are used on sport drinks.

Then there's the claim that twist-offs are the dominant form. Maybe in the USA, bucko, but out here in the vast majority of the world you can go for twenty years and see nary a one - and those that ARE around are on stuff imported from the USA. 86.11.124.189 15:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Physical characteristics

How much does a bottlecap weigh? -josteinaj, 19.feb.06, 00:58 UTC

[edit] Some answers to the above questions

I found a source on crown cap material: [1]

Crown caps apparantly are made from tin plate.

I also found a wholesale supplier selling bottle caps: [2]

1 gross (144) of bottlecaps is .75 pounds; 10,000 bottlecaps is 52 pounds.

From this we can derive that a bottlecap is about 2.3-2.4 grams in weight, or .08 oz. --Soundwave106 14:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twist-off caps

Added the fact that twist-offs are widely used in Australia. They are virtually unknown in the UK (where I live), so it was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser to go to Australia and see people open bottles with their bare hands! 217.155.20.163 22:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bottle cap image

The old bottle cap image was deleted for lacking permission information (see here.) A new bottle cap image should be added. -- HiEv 10:46, 21 August 2007 (UTC)