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Does salt water make electricity?

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Maria Hyacinth Comia
Tristan Robert Cervantes
Rhoy Angelo Mariano

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Introduction and background :

Does salt water make electricity?
Water is comprised of two elements hydrogen and oxygen.
Distilled water is pure and free of salts; thus it is a very poor conductor
of electricity.
By adding ordinary table salt to distilled water, it becomes an electrolyte solution
that can conduct electricity.

The electrolysis method was used to produce the electricity from saltwater.

Saltwater separates into a positively charged sodium ion and a negatively charged
chloride ion. Ions are atoms that have either a positive or negative electric charge,
depending on whether they gain or lose electrons. A metal like sodium forms
positively charged ions. A chloride ion is a non-metal, and it forms a negatively
charged ion.

Although saltwater is a conductor of electricity, pure water is not. Making a saltwater

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circuit is an experiment that demonstrates saltwaters ability to conduct an electrical
charge. To perform this experiment, one needs items that include a 9-volt battery,
light bulb, insulated copper wires, beakers, salt and water.Sodium chloride has the
chemical formula NaCl. It also is an ionic compound. If a compound dissolves in an
aqueous solution and can conduct electricity, it is called an electrolyte. Conversely, if
a compound does not conduct electricity when it dissolves and becomes a solution, it
is a nonelectrolyte. Compounds that consist of only non-metals are examples of
nonelectrolytes.
Chemical energy stored in different substances can be converted to electrical
energy. This ability is the foundation of design of all batteries.

Each battery has two poles usually made of two different metals. One pole is the
positive pole and the other is the negative pole. Electrons can travel from
negative pole to the positive pole via a conductor such as a wire.

A flow of electrons in a conductor is called electricity and if large enough, it can

be used to make electro magnet, light up a light bulb or run an electric motor.
Inside each battery there are chemicals that cause such chemical reactions.
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These chemicals in general are called electrolytes.

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