electricity, homemade coin battery a battery that makes cents/sense

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Which is more of the actual electricity in a homemade coin battery, the voltage or the current?
Please respond ASAP

[norman40]

Hi Sci3nc3Stuff,

I’m assuming that you’re working on the project described here:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ml#summary

Each cell (one stack of penny/electrolyte/nickel) of this kind of battery produces about 0.2 volts and about 0.1 milliamps of current. Voltage and current are two different descriptors of electrical charge. Voltage refers to the amount of energy that is moving the charge. Current refers to the rate that the charge is moving. A more detailed (and much better) explantation is at the following link:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/vo ... d-ohms-law

I hope this helps. Please post again if you have more questions.

A. Norman