How to make fire from a lemon

Bảo Tuấn Nguyễn Thanh
2 min readOct 25, 2019

October 16, 2019 by Doozy Man

In this post we would like to show you how you can make fire from a lemon. It is not necessary in daily. However, it really useful if you like adventure. Sometime, go camping without the fire, this tip will show you how to get the fire.

This is a science experiment, how to make a battery and avoid scurvy with a lemon, copper clips, zinc nails, wire, and steel wool.

For basically understanding. The Electricity is generated through oxidation-reduction, a chemical reaction that occurs when the zinc dissolves into the acid; the lemon itself doesn’t generate electricity, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own lemon party!

With a lemon, we can get about 1 volt battery. sticking copper fasteners and zine nail into the lemon with separate lines. Then Connect the copper to the zinc on a diagonal. Finally, attach one insulated wire to the free copper fastener and one to the free zinc nail

Touch the two wires to a piece of steel wool to create a short-circuit, the steel wool heat up!

You can take a look at this video for more detail.

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Source Basic-Idea.com

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