Phase: Solid Color: Bluish-white metal Hardness: Relatively soft Luster: Exhibits a shine Physical Properties Of Zinc:

Zinc is a fairly reactive metal that will combine with oxygen and other non-metals. Zinc metal tarnishes in moist air and burns in air to form a white “Zinc Oxide”.

Color: Reddish brown Malleability: Capable of being shaped or bended Duct ability: easily pulled or stretched into thin wire Luster: has a shine or glow Conductivity: excellent transmission of heat and electricity

Toxicity: poisonous in large amounts -Softer than Iron but harder than zinc -Copper absorbs moister and a green layer is formed on top of it. It is called "Patina”;this coating protects the metal from being eroded. Toxicity: poisonous in large amounts -Softer than Iron but harder than zinc -Copper absorbs moister and a green layer is formed on top of it. It is called "Patina”;this coating protects the metal from being eroded.

First ever battery! Battery I am building!

Procedures to make the battery

5 Zinc tablets Sulfuric acid Zinc nail Copper strip One beaker Positive wire RED Negative wire BLACK Copper sulfate solution 5 Zinc tablets Sulfuric acid Zinc nail Copper strip One beaker Positive wire RED Negative wire BLACK Copper sulfate solution

Take the sulfuric acid and pour into a beaker. Then take the zinc tablets and let them turn into a powdery form in the water then take a stick and stir the powder into the solution. Then you have your zinc sulfate! Take the sulfuric acid and pour into a beaker. Then take the zinc tablets and let them turn into a powdery form in the water then take a stick and stir the powder into the solution. Then you have your zinc sulfate!

Sulfuric acid W/zinc tablets

Zinc nail in with copper metal & zinc sulfate solution.

Copper sulfate crystals

Trial 1:.55 volts Trial 2:.33 volts Trial 3:.96 volts Trial 4:.93 volts

WHY ARE TRIALS 1 & 2 DIFFERENT FROM TRIALS 2 & 3?

WITHOUT BOTH SULFATES THE ELECTODES DON’T MOVE AS FAST AS IF BOTH SULFATES (ELECTROLITE) WERE IN THE SOLUTION WITH TRIALS 1 & 2

Trials 3 & 4 with both sulfates in the sulfuric acid the electrodes move faster. So the faster the electrodes go through both metals the higher the voltage will be at first and as time goes by the anode (positive charge) in the battery starts to wear out and the cathode(negitive charge )builds up and as the positive charge stars to wear down in the copper there is no more positive charge in the battery so there is no current for the electrodes two flow through.