Can Ariel work like a battery? Like with the fruit things where you can get electricity out of the chemical energy from the citric acid? Can you tell me what reactions take place? Or if somebody already tried experimenting on this?
2007-07-14 19:40:28 · 2 answers · asked by stare@u 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
It gives a shock when you buy these cause of the cost.
2007-07-15 00:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a lot of people don't realise is that in "fruit batteries", the electrical energy comes from the fact that you're sticking two different metals in the lemon (or whatever) and the lemon juice is merely acting as the electrolyte, to help move the ions. So any ionic solution would so, even Ariel - as long as you have two different metals, like zinc and copper, as the electrodes.
2007-07-15 04:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by Gervald F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋