Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Baghdad Battery mysterious


The so-called Baghdad battery is described for the first time by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1938.

It is not known with certainty whether the excavations uncovered gjater or find it in the cellars of the museum but with certainty that is found in a place called Khujut Rabu on the outskirts of Baghdad .

This place has been the area where they lived parthinet who are not known for technological development but as good fighters . This suggests that the battery may have been imported from elsewhere .

Battery was thought to be over 2000 years old consists of a clay pot where a copper cylinder between his and an iron pipe .

On top of this pipe is isolated from the copper pitch but leaving part of copper paizoluar to liquids . In this way if the pot is filled with citric acid coating of copper surrounded by fluid .

Archaeologists came to this conclusion after the Wake of acidic corrosion to metal parts were seen in the battery . It made this bowl or everyday pot replication using the same material and then it is filled with lemon juice which has the ability acidic

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