Wikijunior:Big Book of Fun Science Experiments/Lemon battery

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To make a lemon battery you will need:

A lemon
A penny
A nickel
Copper wire
An LED or calculator.

Experiment:

First, use some wire to cover a penny and other piece of wire on the nickel.
Insert the coins in the lemon and put the other sides of the wires in the sides of the LED.
Then you will see the electric power of the lemon flowing in the diode.

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