Whats your educated guess? Im not trying to make you solve my homework, (besides i'll find out myself) but i still want to know what do you personally think.My hypothesis is that yes it can to put in a simple way. Anyways thank you for your input and take care.
2007-01-16 09:00:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
As David and Vincent said, no. A battery stores energy electrochemically. Heating them, won't recharge the electrochemical cell. An analogy is if you stick a zinc coated paper clip into a lemon. You then also stick a copper wire into the lemon and connecting it to the paper clip. You have a primitive battery where the zinc dissolves in the lemon juice forcing electrons to go up the paper clip and down the copper wire. Heating up the lemon would make the current flow faster, but it cannot move the zinc ions back onto the paper clip.
You can, of course, recharge a battery. Electrical current is forced in the opposite direction to recreate the chemical species required to drive the electrochemical cell. Car batteries do this all the time as can other rechargeable batteries. You can even do this with alkaline batteries but they tend to overheat and leak so it is not advised to do so.
2007-01-16 09:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Kitiany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't recharge the battery by boiling it. It is possible however that if the battery is almost dead it may work more efficiently (albeit for a very short time) because the heat will allow the chemical reaction which is generating the electricity to proceed at a higher rate.
2007-01-16 09:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. In order to revive a dead battery you need to reverse the chemical reaction and boiling water can't do that. Only an electric current can do that (battery recharger for appropriate batteries).
2007-01-16 09:05:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you need an acid, and water is not that. Boiling water can only be used for energy if you have a way to harness it, IE a steam engine.
Salt water, however, can be used to make a very weak battery. Lemon juice or soda works better because it is more acidic.
2007-01-16 09:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by cailano 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's authentic, velocity is beside the point. (Assuming the two kettles are one hundred% useful.) Q = mcT The power enter, Q, is an identical if mass, m, and the exchange in temperature, T, are an identical. C is the particular warmth capacity, that's persevering with for water. The onyl element diverse approximately this kettle and a kettle that takes longer is the capacity. P = E/t capacity is the flexibility output in keeping with unit time, so on condition that this kettle outputs an identical quantity of power in a plenty shorter time it has a plenty bigger capacity than a classic kettle. of path it is probable that the hot kettle is plenty mre useful than the previous kettle, yet you get the gist.
2016-12-16 06:15:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No; no sort of heating will revive a dead battery. Revival would involve undoing the chemistry that created the energy which has been withdrawn.
2007-01-16 09:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
A battery is dead when either the anode or cathode (or both) electroyte are expended and chemically converted. Heating them will achieve nothing, it is like heating smoke and ash hoping to get back some wood.
2007-01-16 09:06:03 · answer #7 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't tell me you're going to throw batteries into a pan of boiling water. Please don't, I'm worried that something bad might happen to you. Like they may explode or something. I have no idea about the answer, just had to write though. Have a nice and safe evening!
2007-01-16 10:09:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not create energy. If the batteries are dead the energy is gone.
2007-01-16 09:19:44 · answer #9 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋