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Lemon Battery Experiment

How does a Lemon battery produce Electricity?

Today our upper grade classrooms made a battery….out of lemons! 🍋 Here’s how it works: An electrolyte is a solution that conducts electricity. The lemon provides citric acid, and acids contain ions which conduct electricity, making the lemon our electrolyte. When zinc is exposed to the acid in the lemon juice, the acid oxidizes—or removes electrons from the zinc. Copper pulls electrons more strongly than zinc, so loose electrons will move towards the copper when the electrodes are connected by