How do batteries work?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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. Got a question that’s got you all charged up? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll run a whole battery of tests to find the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Um.
0:05.0	Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um.
0:08.0	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Sand and Totten.
0:13.0	Um.
0:16.0	Look what just came in the mail! It's only the coolest and most accurate action figure ever of one of the
0:23.8	raddest dinosaurs, the ankylosaurus. It's covered in precision molded armored scales and has two pairs
0:31.9	of horns on its head. Ha! The mouth moves so you can pretend it's chopping on tasty prehistoric plants.
0:39.1	Nom, nom, nom.
0:40.4	And, coolest of all, it has a special heavy club at the end of its tail
0:45.1	to help defend against all those predators.
0:48.1	Carnivorous dinosaurs better watch out.
0:50.5	Come after the ankylosaurus, and it'll pop you right on the snoot.
0:54.1	Ha! Pow! Oh, I almost'll pop you right on the snoot. Ha!
0:54.8	Pow!
0:55.5	Oh, I almost forgot.
0:56.8	It's battery powered, too.
0:58.9	Yeah, the head moves up and down when you press this button.
1:02.4	Uh, this button.
1:03.8	Oh.
1:04.8	Hmm.
1:05.9	Oh, man, battery's not included.
1:08.7	Bummer.
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