Introduction: How to Make a Battery
This is an easy way to get volts from pennies card board and vinegar
Step 1: What You Need
-Pennies (preferably before 1982)
-cardboard
-Vinegar
-Sand paper
-Duct tape
- Wier
Step 2: Step 1
Put all your pennies on a sticky surface and sand them down
Sanding the pennies down will release the zinc under the copper coating
Step 3: Step 2
Cut out cardboard disks and soak them in vingar
Step 4: Step 3
Next stack the pennies and cardboard disks in the order of : penny,cardboard, penny, cardboard
Step 5: Step 4
Now You can put wire on both ends and duct tape it all up
Step 6: Finished
Now it should look like this and if you did it right it should give off close to 3-5 volts
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