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to make a potato battery u need the following things:

1 large potato

1 voltmeter

1 steel nailTo make a potato battery, you would need the following things:

One large potato

One voltmeter

One steel Answers.com

A small piece of copper wire

Alligator clips

Now, what you need to do is to stick the nail and copper wire into the potato (they should not be touching but should not be very far from each other either. These are our Answers.com in this reaction. Connect the electrodes to the voltmeter with alligator Answers.com. Attach the positive end with the copper wire and the negative end with the nail. As soon as this circuit is complete, the voltmeter would give a reading. This reading is usually around half volt for one potato.

If this is for a Answers.com, good luck! :) May be you can even use several potatoes together (connect them together with wires) and use them to light a small bulb! Just replace the voltmeter with the bulb. Remember, you need a very small bulb if you want it to Answers.comAnswers.com

Answers.comthe number of volts is not very high.

some copper wire

alligator clips

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