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** THE STUDY OF VOLTAGE PRODUCED FROM CITRUS FRUITS **
Keely M 2013-2014


 * ABSTRACT **

The purpose of this study was to determine which type of citrus fruit produces the most voltage. When copper and zinc are poked into the fruit, it becomes a wet cell and acts like a battery. A copper wire and a zinc nail were both poked into four citrus fruits and each of the four fruits was connected to a multimeter which measured the voltage. It was determined that the lemon and the grapefruit produced the same amount of voltage and had the most voltage and the lime was determined to have the lowest voltage. The fruit that were more acidic clearly produced more voltage than the fruits that were less acidic.


 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

====One way that this experiment can be improved is to test other fruits than just citrus fruits. This would improve the experiment by giving more of a variety of fruits to see how citrus fruits compare to other types of fruits. Some future experiments could test fruits other than citrus fruits and compare those fruits to the citrus fruits based on results of future experiments. ====

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