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Cucumber as a Cell


Cucumber as a Cell

Subject	Biology
Level	Lower and upper secondary
Language	English
Type	Experiment

We cut a pickled cucumber with an aluminum fork and a steel knife.

We connect aluminum fork and steel knife to galvanometer, then we cut pickled cucumber using knife and fork. We can observe how hands of galvanometer are swinging. It means that there is current in the circuit.

Contact details

Name Irena Sitko
Email sirena@hot.pl

Last update: 14 December 2006

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