[thedoc]

Brandon Guerrero  asked the Naked Scientists:
   
Would it be possible for the lemon to act as an electrolyte, aluminium sheet actually be an alloy of aluminium-zinc and the fish composing traces of copper to allow the three elements create this phenomenon?

Here is a liveleak.com video of a dead fish moving quite a bit.

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What do you think?

[RD]

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[evan_au]

Electricity in animals was discovered by Galvani when dissecting a frog. ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN
[But I'm a bit suspicious of the comment in Wikipedia that it was due to static electricity.... More likely an electrochemical cell.]

[CliffordK]

The fish must be fresh.  The lemon juice would depolarize the neurons in the fish.  Quite spectacular videos.

Did you read about the 2012 Ig Nobel prize about neuro-imaging of dead fish?
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