How do batteries work?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Batteries power lots of stuff that people use everyday, like cellphones, toys and laptop computers. Some batteries can even be recharged after they run out of juice. But how do batteries store electricity? We asked chemistry professor James McKone to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. If you love Brains on Universe, you'll love the latest season of Million |
| 0:04.9 | Bizzillion Marketplace's award-winning kids podcast about money. |
| 0:08.9 | Hosts Ryan and Bridget answer the funny, tricky, and just really good questions from |
| 0:13.1 | kid listeners to help dollars make more sense. |
| 0:16.2 | Million Bizzillion is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for |
| 0:20.3 | kids and teens. With Greenlight, kids debit card and money app for kids and teens. |
| 0:21.7 | With Greenlight, kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest. |
| 0:26.4 | Learn all about Greenlight at greenlight.com slash million. |
| 0:30.1 | And tune in to Million Billion wherever you find your favorite podcasts. |
| 0:34.8 | From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Umm. |
| 0:38.3 | Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, look what just came in the mail! It's only the coolest and most accurate action figure ever of one of the raddest dinosaurs, the Ankylosaurus. |
| 1:02.3 | It's covered in precision-molded armored scales and has two pairs of horns on its head. |
| 1:08.6 | The mouth moves, so you can pretend it's chomping on tasty prehistoric plants. |
| 1:14.0 | Nom, nom, nom. |
| 1:15.3 | And, coolest of all, it has a special heavy club at the end of its tail |
| 1:20.1 | to help defend against all those predators. |
| 1:23.0 | Carnivorous dinosaurs better watch out. |
| 1:25.4 | Come after the ankylosaurus, and it'll pop you right on the snoot. |
| 1:29.1 | Ha! |
| 1:29.7 | Pow! |
| 1:30.4 | Oh, I almost forgot. |
| 1:31.7 | It's battery powered, too. |
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