food generating electricity

gmburris · Post by **gmburris** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:27 pm

How do I light a light bulb with a potato or lemon?

Louise · Post by **Louise** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:27 pm

gmburris wrote:How do I light a light bulb with a potato or lemon?

This is a very common project... I did it myself in elementary school about a million years ago!

If you want instructions for the project, I suggest using a search engine such as google and try such searches as "electricity from a lemon" or "lemon battery". Pretty much any set of key words works here, since it is such a popular experiment.

If you want to know how this works, you do the same search, read about different types of cells, and then post back here with questions.

Louise

deleted-71555 · Post by **deleted-71555** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:08 pm

It is one of the ScienceBuddies projects and there are very detailed instructions in the this website:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... ?from=Home

Louise · Post by **Louise** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:23 pm

franklinduan wrote:It is one of the ScienceBuddies projects and there are very detailed instructions in the this website:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... ?from=Home

Interesting. I like the variations and the questions posed, but I think there are clearer instructions at other sites.

However, the best way to get a good experimental procedure is to read a bunch of different procedures. See which elements are in common, and which instructions are best written, and use pieces of each.

Louise

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