Lemon Battery Procedure

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Step 1 Take the first lemon and make a slit at one end. Insert the copper coin into the slit. Step 2 At the other end, make a similar slit and insert the galvanized zinc nail. Ensure that the nail and coin do not touch each other. The copper coin and zinc nail form the positive and negative electrodes respectively, thereby forming the single cell of the battery. The copper coin is the positive terminal and the zinc nail is the negative terminal. Step 3 Test the voltage of the lemon by using a multimeter to see if there is enough electricity to light up the LED. Connect the positive (red terminal) from the multimeter to the copper penny and the negative terminal (black wire) from the multimeter to the galvanized nail. One lemon produced 0.73 volts which isn’t enough voltage to power on a low voltage LED. Step 4 To achieve enough voltage to light up the low voltage LED, one has to make more lemon batteries and connect them via the alligator clip wires. Take the other three lemons and follow the same procedure from step 1 to step 3. Step 5 Connect the four lemon batteries to each other with alligator clip wires, such that the positive electrode of one battery is connected to the negative terminal of the other battery Step 6 Connect the negative terminal of the first lemon to the LED and the positive terminal of the fourth lemon to the LED. Your circuit is complete. The flow of electrons will take place from lemon 1 to 4, via 2 and 3 and then light up the LED STEP 7 2 lemons produce 1.29 volts which isn’t enough electricity to power up the low voltage LED. 3 lemons produce 1.80 volts which isn’t enough electricity to light up the low voltage LED. 4 lemons produce enough electricity to power up the low voltage LED. 4 lemons produce 2.72. You have successfully created a lemon battery using 4 lemons which will produce enough

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