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Lemon battery

 
 
miros11
 
Reply Sat 5 Aug, 2017 07:25 pm
Made a lemon battery (Zinc and Copper electrodes), and noticed that a bubbling (probably of H2 gas) was occuring at the Zinc electrode, and not the copper one, which shouldn't be the case (since the reaction producing the H2 gas and the bubbling should be happening at the copper where 2H+ + 2e- = H2 (gas) occurs)
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centrox
 
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Reply Sun 6 Aug, 2017 01:06 am
Is this with no load on the battery? There is an additional "open-circuit reaction" that causes bubbling at the zinc electrode. This occurs when the pH of the electrolyte is below around 3.4 (lemon juice has a pH of around 2).

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