Friday, June 11, 2010

Make Electricity from fruits are made easy

    Introduction: 

    This project is one of the most famous electricity projects that can be performed successfully by most students in the age of 10 to 16. Since the same method is used to get energy from many fruits and chemicals, this project has many names. Following are some of the other names or titles for this project:

  • Fruit power or fruit battery
  • Convert Chemical energy to electrical energy
  • Potato battery or Lemon battery

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Procedure:

           Making electricity from chemicals is based on the same scientific principles on which all modern batteries work. You insert copper and zinc electrodes in an acidic liquid and produce some electricity from the chemical reaction between your electrodes and electrolyte. The electricity produced in this way can be displayed with a multi-meter that can show millivolts. It may also be able to power up a 1.2 Volts light bulb. Making electricity experiment can be used for many different science projects.

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