Or into a frog. I guess the picture could also be Aquaman.Probably copper and zinc. You can make a primitive battery by inserting copper and zinc electrodes into a potato.
Thanks.
OK; so a 'normal' galvanic cell that would have dissimilar metals submerged in electrolyte would generate a current into a load placed between the electrodes.
At the picture, there is no 'load' ; The electrolyte is the animal tissues and the current equally flows. The galvanic cell is not created from the junction of different metals behind the hand, the electrolyte is the animal tissue and the 'load' is a short circuit behind the hand. Got it.
And then you'd need to be toad away.You need to be careful with that apparatus, or you could croak.
It could be, but you don't want to jump to any conclusions.I think that what Galvani discovered is known as the Seebeck effect.
The junction of copper and zinc is held in the hand. This most likely raised the temperature at the junction thus producing an emf.
The emf causes a current to flow in the frogs legs causing muscular contraction.
We have gone TOAD-ally off topic.And then you'd need to be toad away.
The early experiment was thought to demonstrate that the muscle had a charge that was released by the two different types of wires. Volta came along and proved the two different metals generated a current and caused the muscle to twitch.That classroom experiment/demonstration is aimed to show the muscles are activated by electrical current, but explores nothing about the current generation...
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