OUR BATTERY BODIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 7

OUR BATTERY BODIES.

Here are two simple experiments which will prove that 3011 are charged with electricity, says a writer in the "Weekly Dispatch." Place a glass dish containing about half a cupful of water on the table. Sow hold the lingers of the hand a short distance away from one another over the water. Keep them there for about three nvinutes and then taste the water. It will have a curious electrical or carbonised taste. People with a sharp sense of taste can te.ll water over which lingers have been held quite easily. Another experiment is to hold the tips of the fingers together in front of a black or dark cloth. Take care that, one's hands arc well in the shadow, and for this it is a good plan to stand with ithe back to the window. Keep the finger tips together for about forty seconds and then very gradually move them apart. Watch closely and thin streams of vapour, hardly to be called light, will bo seen coming from the finger tips. As the fingers are moved farther and farther apart tbe threads will become increasingly thin until they break off and disappear altogether. These weird threads are caused by the electricity in the body.