Hand Battery

Your skin and two different metals create a battery.

When you place your hands on metal plates, you and the plates form a battery.

A DC microammeter
(15 minutes or less)
Mount both metal plates on a piece of wood or simply clamp them to a nonmetallic surface. (If [...]

Project Idea
How chemical energy may be changed into electrical energy.; The electrical energy which caused the ringing of the bell was generated in a battery cell by a chemical action.; The simplest form of a cell of this kind, called the voltaic cell, was invented in 1800 by Alessandro Volta, a professor in an Italian [...]