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This instrument contains two parts of mechanical components: capacitor and data collector.
The capacitor is a "parallel plate" capacitor that can conduct electricity in large amount and able to store those electricities.
The plant stem is represented as a green cylinder and AgCl electrodes are slightly injected in different levels of the plant stem so that it won't damage the plant in a large degree. As the electrics flow differently depending on the levels, the voltages that the capacitor stores and sends to the data collector will vary. The electrode is purposely designed as AgCl because the organic informations flows with the fluid inside the phloem by Ag+ ion and Cl- ion.
Each side of the parallel plate capacitor has (+) and (-) poles are attached with the AgCl electrodes that are inserted in the plant stem, especially in the phloem. The parallel plate capacitor sends the electric signal (information) to the data collector that is located on the base. Wait, so what is a phloem?
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Phloem is the living tissue that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis to parts of plants where needed. The organic compounds are mostly transported in a fluid form, especially on cell walls and vacuoles.
The data collector reads the electric volt (V) of the electricity that flows inside the plant and automatically converts to calories per second. (J/s, 4.18 W) The data collector also inputs different values in the program installed in the computer, which allows to figure out what kind of organics are present, how much the organics are floating inside the plant, and whether there are unknown values (organics that human beings have not discovered yet).