Artist Charcoal homemade rechargeable battery

This is a homemade rechargeable voltaic cell that uses artist charcoal sticks for BOTH electrodes. The sticks are coated with a paste of lead oxide and wrapped up in an absorbant cloth material. An electrolyte of Alum and distilled water is used. To form the cell into a rechargeable condition a 6 volt battery is used.

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