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Fruit Battery- Creating Clean Energy Year 9 – Electricity and Electrical Devices

Fruit Battery

Winters can be very cold in Canada, forcing Canadians to use more heat in their home. The extra
heat is created from electricity which must be bought from the local hydro company. This can be
very expensive to do in the winter. To help people save money on electricity, you’ve been tasked
with trying to create a clean and inexpensive form of electricity that can be used in your
community.

My research has indicated that the citric acid found in fresh fruit acts as an electrolyte and can be
used as an electrically conduction solution. Using this knowledge, your job will be to create a battery
using three pieces of fruit and testing to see which one produces the greatest electric current when
combined with negative and positive electrodes.

You will present your findings to the CEO of a local hydro company to persuade them to use your
most effective fruit battery for mass production.
Diagram of a wet cell:

The Experiment

1. Prepare your lemon by squeezing it on all sides with your hands. Make sure that
you don’t squeeze it so much that you break the skin of the fruit.
2. Insert a zinc nail all the way into one side of the lemon.
3. Insert the copper nail into the opposite side of the lemon.
4. Use an alligator clip to connect the long LED lead to the copper nail.
5. Use a second alligator clip to connect the short LED lead to the zinc nail.
6. Record what happened to the LED in your observations.
7. If you have a multi-meter, use it to find the current in your circuit and record your
results for that trial.
8. Remove the zinc and copper nails and wipe off any excess juice.

9. Repeat steps 1-8 two more times by putting the nails in different places of the
lemon. Record your observations and the current each time.
10. Calculate the average current produced by that fruit by adding the values from the
three trials and dividing the sum by three.

11. The experiment was repeated with these three fruits lemon, orange, grapefruit.
Observations

Lemon
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3

Observations

Current
(milliamps)

Fruit #1:
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3

Observations

Current
(milliamps)
Fruit #2:
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3

Observations

Current
(milliamps)

Fruit #3:
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3

Observations

Current
(milliamps)

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