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When a LED bulb is touching lemon juice will the bulb glow?
Question Date: 2016-10-19
Answer 1:

No, the LED bulb will not light up. To light a bulb, we need to supply it electrical power, like the kind that an electrical wall outlet provides, or electrochemical power, like the chemical reaction that happens inside a battery. You might be able to include lemon juice in a chemical reaction, but by itself, it cannot react.


Answer 2:

That's a fun experiment. You could try it. But batteries have a plus (+) and a minus (-) end with different chemical reactions at each end, so I think you would need something in addition to the lemon juice to make the LED light.

Here's a website that tells more about this :

lemon battery



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