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Lemon battery experiment

Learn how to make battery from lemon

Successfully creating battery from a lemons is not easy.
Batteries consist of two different metals suspended in an acidic solution. Copper and Zinc work well as the metals and the citric acid content of a lemon will provide the acidic solution.
Lemon batteris will not be able torun a motor or something liek that, but it would be able to produce a dom glow from an LED.

What you need?  Lemon (fresh, juicy works best), nail (I used a 2″ galvanized common nail) and the penny.

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