November 13th 2015 archive

Prediction about best fruit/vegetable conductor

I believe the best conductor of electricity that’s a food is a lemon

lemons

I believe that a lemon can be a good conductor because it acts the same way as a battery. a battery contains two pieces of metal called electrodes, and a liquid or paste called electrolytes. When the electrodes and electrolytes connect with a material that can transport electricity well (a conductor). This causes a chemical reaction to occur. In a lemon, a solution of water and a electrolyte (the acid in a lemon) makes a large amount of electrons collect on one end of the electrodes, while at the same time many are lost from the other electrode. This causes a lemon to act like a battery when two different wires are connected to it. The wires act as the electrodes having one become positively charged and the other negatively charged.