Testing The Reliability Of Salt Water With A Triple-A Battery

The purpose of this project is to test the reliability of salt water as a conductor. Our hypothesis is that if we use salt water with a triple a battery it will have longer longevity than a light bulb powered with just a triple-a battery.In both of our designs we will be using a 3 watt light bulb with a 1.5 volt battery, these are our constants. Our control will be the circuit with only the triple-a battery.Voltage is the potential to move an electric charge.Watts are the rate of energy transferred from one area to another area, it’s a unit of power. Salt water conducts electricity because salt is an electrolyte, which means it produces an electrolytic, an electrolytic is a solution that creates electricity. and when electrolytes dissipate

An insulator is substance that doesn`t allow the flow of electrons to pass through the wire.Now salt-water isn’t doesn’t produce electricity, it conducts it. If salt water did produce electricity, the moment we step into the ocean you will be electrocuted since most of the ocean is salt water.For this project we did use a battery with our salt water design, so we’re comparing the longevity of light bulb produce by just a triple-a battery with a light bulb powered by a battery with salt water.Our goal in this science fair is to test the reliability of using salt water as a conductor of electricity.The difference between an AA and a AAA battery is the size, meaning they can store more energy. The battery has three parts, the cathode,the anode and the electrolyte.The cathode is a negatively charged electrode.The anode is the positively charged electrode, and an electrolyte is a solution that produces electricity. A battery is a device able to produce electricity by creating a chemical reaction that produces electricity that takes place in the center of the battery between the cathode and the anode , and that's what creates the flow of electrons, which are negatively charged subatomic particles, that creates electricity. For this part of the experiment the circuit with just a triple a battery, this will be our control group as it doesn’t get the saltwater.In this part of the experiment, our first concept was that we attached insulated copper wires, because copper is also a very good conductor, from each electrode of the battery to the light bulb. The light bulb would’ve flash on like the other circuit would have.But we decided to something different and instead of using wires, we used a paper clip to attach the canode and the anode of the battery to the light