building a battery

It is called redox reaction, redox or simply redox reaction to any

chemical in which one or more electrons are transferred between
reactants, causing a change in their state of oxidacin.
manifested energy in chemical reactions does as heat, but some of
them can do it like electric current in oxidation-reduction reactions,
which form the basis of electric batteries. There are substances that
provide them without much energy, lose electrons. We say that rust.
Other gain electrons, and are reduced. If we can get those electrons
traversing a cable (circuit) outside, we will have achieved an electric
current.
To build the battery will need the following substances:
Beaker
Cables and crocodile clips
LED
Magnesium ribbon
Copper pipe
Vinegar
Steps:
1.-beaker filled with vinegar (dilute acetic acid) to about half.
2. - We subjected one end of a cable to the copper foil and an end of
another cable to magnesium ribbon. Connect the other ends to each
terminal of an LED (light emitting diode, which does not need much
energy to light).
3. - Introduce into the glass with vinegar the two sheets being careful
not to touch each other. The two sheets of electrodes are called, and
the glass with vinegar is the cell electrolyte chemistry.

4. - Check that LED lights from the moment the electrodes immersed in
the electrolyte.
5.- With the voltmeter measure the potential difference between the
electrodes of the stack.
Construct a battery formed by a magnesium electrode (anode:
negative electrode) and a copper electrode (cathode: positive
electrode) used as electrolyte vinegar.
When the sheets of the electrodes are connected by wires (carry
electrical current), the chemical reaction takes place: The hydrogen is
released into the copper foil that loses electrons loaning dissolution
and being positively charged. Magnesium ionized atoms are released
from the corresponding sheet, leaving behind electrons that negatively
charged sheet. The electrons move through the cable from the foil to
the copper magnesium. This is the electrical current, which continues
until the magnesium completely erodes or is disabled acid.