How does a battery work? Please explain with easier words or rephrase it cuz im just a kid...lol?

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Thanks!!:)

Answer 1

If you like science and are in middle school, you probably know that things are made of atoms and that atoms have protons,neutrons and electrons.

The electrons are on the outside of the atoms, and they can get loose and move around. When they move around down a wire we call that an electrical current.

Some atoms will easily give up electrons (we call those "metals) if you get a metal and some kinds of non-metals, or else, two metals where one of the metals wants to give away electrons more than the other, then you can set them up to trade electrons.

So, in a battery, what you have is two sets of atoms. One set wants to give away electrons, and the other set of atoms will take the electrons. Put a wire or connection between the two sets of atoms and electricity goes down the wire. If you have a gadget like a flashlight, the electricity goes from one end of the battery, through the wire and through the bulb and out of the bulb to the other part of the battery. Making a connection like that is called a "circuit". You might have made a potato battery by putting two different pieces of metal stuck into a potato. When you hitch a wire between them they can produce a little bit of electricty - the two kinds of metals are trading electrons!

This stuff is a lot of fun. You can study it when you get older by taking the course called "Chemistry" and "physics". Maybe someday you will be an electrical engineer and make a lot of money designing new electrical gadgets!

Answer 2

In other words, the chemicals interact with the metals inside the battery. One terminal is attached to a kind of metal that loses electrons when it interacts with the chemicals (making the positive end). A different kind of metal collects lose electrons from the chemicals, and is attached to the other terminal for for a negative terminal.

Answer 3

GO TO WIKIPEDIA AND TYPE IN BATTERY
electrochemical cell A battery is a device in which chemical energy is directly converted to electrical energy. It consists of one or more voltaic cells, each of which is composed of two half cells connected in series by the conductive electrolyte.[2] Each cell has a positive terminal and a negative terminal, which do not touch each other but are immersed in a solid or liquid electrolyte.

The electrolyte is a conductor which connects the half-cells together. It also contains ions which can react with chemicals of the electrodes. Chemical energy is converted into electrical energy by chemical reactions that transfer charge between the electrode and the electrolyte at their interface. Such reactions are called faradaic, and are responsible for current flow through the cell. Ordinary, non-charge-transferring (non-faradaic) reactions also occur at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces. Non-faradaic reactions are one reason that voltaic cells (particularly the lead-acid cell of ordinary batteries) "run down" when sitting unused.

Voltaic cells, and batteries of voltaic cells, are rated in volts, the SI unit of electromotive force. The voltage across the terminals of a battery is known as its terminal voltage. The terminal voltage of a battery that is neither charging nor discharging (the open-circuit voltage) equals its emf. The terminal voltage of a battery that is discharging is less than the emf, and that of a battery that is charging is greater than the emf.

Alkaline and carbon-zinc cells are rated at about 1.5 volts, because of the nature of the chemical reactions inside. Because of the high electrochemical potentials of lithium compounds, Li cells can provide as much as 3 or more volts. However, lithium compounds can also be hazardous.

The conventional model for a voltaic cell, as drawn above, has the internal resistance drawn outside the cell. This is a correct Thevenin equivalent for circuit applications, but it oversimplifies the chemistry and physics. In a more accurate (and more complex) model, a voltaic cell can be thought of as two electrical pumps, one at each terminal (the faradaic reactions at the corresponding electrode-electrolyte interfaces), separated by an internal resistance largely due to the electrolyte. Even this is an oversimplification, since it cannot explain why the behavior of a voltaic cell depends strongly on its rate of discharge. For example, it is well known that a cell that is discharged rapidly (but incompletely) will recover spontaneously after a waiting time, but a cell that is discharged slowly (but completely) will not recover spontaneously.

The simplest characterization of a battery would give its emf (voltage), its internal resistance, and its capacity. In principle, the energy stored by a battery equals the product of its emf and its capacity.

Answer 4

battery are composed of electrons and two terminals - the negative terminal and the positive terminal..
those electrons have a negative charge and the same charges repel, so, the electrons are being pushed by the negative terminal to the positive terminal which attract them since opposite charges attract..In order to make the flow of electron(current) continuous, there is force called potential which helps the electrons not to clog at the positive terminal..it pulls the electrons towards the negative terminal and then it is again pushed towards the positive terminal, and it flows continuosly in that way..

Answer 5

they send them down the mines Kitty!

Answer 6

Plug them into your toys + to+ and - to -