Battery Basics
A Touch Keeps Phone Batteries Going Longer
It is so annoying having a phone battery die on us at a critical moment…
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Why Do We Call a Battery … A Battery
What’s in a name? Nothing, until we associate it with something concrete. Before 1799, a…
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How to Extend Your Battery Life
Battery life depends mainly on battery design and manufacturing quality. Individual batteries also benefit from…
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Li-Ion Batteries Up in the Sky
Nickel-cadmium and Li-Ion batteries on board passenger aircraft have an important job to do. They…
What is an Electric Current? A Simple Explanation
An electric current is a flow of an electric charge between two points. Imagine it…
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Lithium Penny Battery: Warning for Parents
Surgeons at London’s Great Ormond Hospital, the UK’s largest pediatrics center have issued a health…
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What Are Electrodes & What Do They Do?
If you think of an ‘elect-rode’ as being an electric rod, you are close to…
Why Does that Battery Have That Name?
Battery cell formats have changed hugely down the years from the early 1700’s, when the…
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Look Who’s Treading on Tesla Turf
In March 2015 researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute suggested electric car sales will accelerate…
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No Need to Eat Our Socks
All batteries have three basic bits that make our phones work, our cars start, and…