Make: Projects – Harvesting chemicals from a battery
This tutorial shows how to take apart a spent zinc-carbon dry cell of the common household type. Besides making for an interesting object lesson in electrochemistry, taking apart a spent D-cell, for instance, allows you to salvage many materials which can be of use to amateur chemists–materials which would otherwise probably end up in a landfill. Separated from its reactive components, the leftover parts of the battery can be safely added to most municipal recycling streams.
