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Download Free Science Activities, Access Chemistry Multimedia, Find Information on Workshops How batteries work - Adam Jacobson Several advancements soon followed the Voltaic pile. British chemist John Frederic Daniell replaced the salt water with a solution of copper sulfate, which would be reduced into pure copper on the surface of the copper. The copper was no longer a flat plate, but a copper pot that held the solution, a zinc rod, and a porous earthenware pot separating them. The Daniell cell could generate up to 1.1 Volts without the hydrogen gas problem, a vast improvement on Volta’s short-living pile that measured only 0.8 volts. French Scientist Georges Leclanché improved on this in 1866 – he switched out the copper and copper sulfate for a carbon rod sitting in a solution containing manganese IV oxide, which would reduce to manganese (III) oxide.

The 2,400-year search for the atom - Theresa Doud Ernest Rutherford Although Ernest Rutherford is well known for his discovery of the nucleus, he did a lot of other research and experiments into topics other than the atom. He started his career studying electricity and magnetism and it wasn’t until he left his home of New Zealand and moved to Cambridge, England that he started working with the atom. Working under J.J. Thomson at Cambridge University, Rutherford investigated electrical conduction in gases using X-rays. When radioactive atoms were discovered in the late 1890s, he switched his experiment to use radioactivity instead of X-rays to initiate electrical conduction in his gases.

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