A lot of things can produces electricity, but fruits such as citrus fruits could also produce electricity? I chose this topic because in a movie, I saw a potato clock which got me interested in fruit electricity, so I decided to produce electricity from citrus fruits. Citrus fruits are acidic fruits that can produce electricity. To get further information read on the following questions will be answered.
• What makes a fruit citrus?
• Why do citrus fruits produce electricity?
• What is electricity?
• What measures electricity?
Question: What makes a fruit citrus?
There are a lot of types of fruits in this world and one of them is citrus fruits. Citrus fruits are from plants in a Rue family. A Rue family is a family of flowering plants. Most citrus fruits come from 4 species from Southeast Asia. The name citrus came from a Greek word Cedar which means “sour fruits”. All citrus fruits are acidic fruits. Citrus fruits are fruits with vitamin C. Citrus fruits are known as having a sweet smell and a juicy pulp. A pulp is a soft wet, shapeless mass of material. Fruits that are known as citrus fruits have a tough and hard skin and juicy pulp inside such as oranges, lemons, grapefruits, and tangerines. These fruits contain more acid and are mostly important due to their acidic properties. This is what a citrus fruit is and that’s what makes a fruit citrus. I found my information from; Boston.com, Easybib.com, High bean.com and Encyclopedia.com.
Question: Why do citrus fruits produce electricity?
There’s a lot of interesting facts about electricity but do you know that electricity could also be produced by citrus fruits? Any type of citrus fruit can produces electricity when they get...
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When a solution conducts electricity, the charge is carried by ions moving through a solution. Ions are atoms or small groups of atoms that have an electrical charge. Some ions have a negative charge and some have a positive charge. Pure water contains very few ions, so it does not conduct electricity very well. Not all substances are made up of ions. Some are made of uncharged particles called molecules. Sugar is such a substance. When sugar is dissolved in water, the solution does not conduct electricity, because there are no ions in the solution. That's why in Hands-on Squishy Circuits, the sugar PLAY-DOH did not produce electricity. The salt had ions in it to produce the electricity needed to make the LEDs light up.
Citrus fruit are not just used for fresh fruit and juice. It has many other uses. One is in jellies and in other preserves. Preserves include marmalades and crystallized fruits. A by-product of citrus production is ...
Citrus fruits are good for you because they are filled with vitamin C and other antioxidants. However, they have high amounts of citric acid in them. Citric acid has been shown to worsen overactive bladder. Fruits are still an important part of your diet, but you should consider eating more fruits that are less acidic. This includes things such as bananas and apples.
This experiment is predicated on the concept of utilizing liquid CO2 to extract D-Limonene from an orange’s rind and using optical rotation/refractive index to characterize the D-Limonene. Limonene is an essential oil which is found in orange peels. Limonene is classified as a monoterpene. This is because its structure consists of two isoprene units (C5H10). Limonene, like many essential oils, is categorized as a terpene/terpenoid. Terpenoids are oxygenated variations of terpenes. Terpenes are organic molecules that make up essential oils that can be found in many citrus fruits. Terpenes have structures made up of multiple isoprene units. These units are typically loosely assembled in a head-to-tail fashion (Weldegirma 2016). Terpenes are
Alternate Hypothesis: Increasing concentration of the enzyme, pectinase, will increase the volume of juice produced and the clarity. The reason behind this hypothesis is the fact that at a higher concentration of pectinase, more enzyme molecules are present to break down the pectin in the cell wall of the apple and since pectins have a high affinity towards water and form hydrophilic groups, a higher concentration of pectinase disrupt these bonds between water and pectins and enables “the water in the form of juice to be released during fruit juice extraction.”
To start orange juice was not always here. It came out of an advertising campaign in the 1920’s. (1)The California Fruit Growers (now known as Sunkist) had been producing too many oranges for the current market. Their supply and demand ratio was off. They needed to find a new use for oranges besides just peeling and consuming them .There was too many oranges being wasted. Orange juice takes three to four oranges for each cup of juice. It was an effective means to use extra oranges.(2)
persica (L.) Batsch, var. nectarina] belong to the Rosaceae family and are thought to have originated in China (Salunkhe and Desai, 1984). A peach fruit is approximately 87% water with 180 kJ (43 kcal) and contains carbohydrates, organic acids, pigments, phenolics,vitamins, volatiles, antioxidants and trace amounts of proteins and lipids, which make it very attractive to consumers (Kader and Mitchell, 1989b; USDA, 2003). Peaches and nectarines ripen and deteriorate quickly at ambient temperature. Therefore, cold storage is used to slow these processes and decay
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(2012a) investigated effects of different pomegranate juice extraction methods on quality and stability of pomegranate juice were evaluated. A Hand press method, mechanical extraction using screw type hand juicer and electrically operated fruit juicer and machine extraction using electrically operated hydraulic basket press methods were used for extraction from manually separated arils of pomegranate fruit cv. Bhagwa. An extracted juice was analyzed for physicochemical and sensorial parameters like juice recovery, specific gravity, pH, TSS, acidity, sugars, phenols, anthocyanins, antioxidant activity, colour, flavour, taste and overall acceptability. Microbial limit tests were also carried out. Screw type hand fruit juicer with fiber molded crusher gave highest per cent juice recovery on fruit and aril weight basis. It also recorded maximum anthocyanin content (85.815mg/100 g) and sugars (16.818 per cent) in juice. Highest overall acceptability score (8.607) with low microbial population (7.95 x 103 cfu/ml) was observed with this
Orange juice will have the highest content of vitamin C. Citrus fruits have a higher content of vitamin C. The orange and lemon juice will contain more vitamin C than the pineapple juice. Furthermore, as lemons are more acidic than oranges I predict that the orange juice will contain more vitamin C than the lemon juice. Vitamin C affects, the ph the more vitamin C the higher the ph.
...ch with the requirement climates of the fruit, but these countries have their own best fruit according to their unique climates. For example, Italy produces lots of wine (make from fruits), Greece produces quite large amount of olives, while Spain produces the most fruit that I mentioned above because Spain has a suitable climates for growing fruit. So climates are very important to fruit that they might affect the fruit they grow.
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Watermelon is truly one of summertime’s sweetest treats. Watermelons are fun to eat and good for you. Watermelon seeds were brought to this country by African slaves. Today there are more than 100 different varieties of watermelons. The flesh may be red, pink, orange, or yellow. There are seedless varieties and super-sweet round ones that fit nicely into the refrigerator.
The freshly squeezed citrus juices of Lemon,lime and orange were analysed through titration over the period of 2 weeks. Initially the lime juice was found to be slightly more acidic than the other juices followed by lemon juice and then orange juice since it is known that usually lime is more acidic than lemon and orange. It was hypothesised that the acidity of each juice will increase or decrease after the period of two weeks depending upon the sugar content of that citrus fruit that the juice is extracted from. The acidity of the juice with the highest sugar level will gradually increase over the period of time since sugar contribute to the the fermentation of the citrus juice to lactic acid. The hypothesis was shown to be correct;however
In 1750, Benjamin Franklin wanted to prove that lightning was caused by electricity. He tested his theory with an experiment in which he flew a kite with a metal key attached to it into a storm cloud. The historical facts are not clear as to if he actually carried out the experiment, which is why there is doubt that he is the discoverer of electricity. But, we still credit him with the idea. He also did other experiments concerning electricity, but others after him would have to ...