The Ballzinger, Irony, and Me

I experienced quite a coincidence today. I’m a student in college and today in my chemistry lab, we created batteries using different metals, solutions, a multimeter, and salt-water drenched paper. There were 5 different metals used in the lab, including zinc, copper, magnesium, lead, and tin. The setup was to take the piece of metal (the electrode) and dip it into a solution of its own ions (the electrolyte), connect the two electrodes with a multimenter and connect the electrolytes with a piece of filter paper soaked in salt water to create a complete circuit. The picture below shows the circuit. After doing the lab, we found that the greatest voltage was between copper and magnesium. What I’m wondering is what a copper/ magnesium ballzinger be more effective? BTW, the voltage for copper/magnesium was roughly double the voltage for copper/zinc. Cu/Zn - .9, Cu/Mg - 1.8

I also received my zinc from McMaster’s today so I’m wearing it right now for the first time. I wore while I worked out and I thought I felt a little bit of a zap and but it could have very well been hair pulling. Hard to say…

Where’s the picture?

Mg wouldn’t work if the zinger works by supplementing zinc. It might make for an interesting comparison though for those who perceive results from a zinc/copper zinger.

Woops, file was too big. Hope this works.

wangchun,

Check your PMs :)

No problem, do you want me to repost the pic?

Can you save it in a different format?

If you have XP you can save it in JPEG or GIF format with paint. The BMP was nearly half a meg and would be very slow for everyone.

Do that, then go ahead and post it.

Why not try gold and lithium. Au/Li - 4.74 v. Or why not use the power outlet in the wall. You’d get a pretty good voltage from there.

> Or why not use the power outlet in the wall. You’d get a pretty good voltage from there.

I was thinking stun gun. Something like 50-80K volts. That oughta wake the boys up.

I think zinc and copper are doing just fine. Maybe I’m crazy but I think this thing is working already.

Here’s the pic.

Like hobby mentioned already, it’s the properties of the zinc that make the ball zinger effective.