Battery Basics
Recharging a Battery if Electrodes Allow It
We have been focusing on single-use batteries whose electrical life ends after they surrender most…
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Why Some Fruit and Veg Conduct Electricity
That old fruit battery experiment comes around each year, as regular as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and…
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Balancing Flow of Ions in the Electrolyte
On first sight the electrolyte plays a secondary role in a storage battery. However, when…
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Overall Battery Potential Determines Voltage
We spoke about electrode potential in a previous post, and the need to balance it…
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Electrode Chemistry Inside a Storage Battery
We established in a previous post how electrons travel between electrodes in a battery to…
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The Chemistry of an Electric Battery
A battery stores chemical energy, and converts it to electricity when a device draws it.…
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Camille Faure’s Coated Lead Sheet Battery
Camille Alphonse Faure was a French chemical engineer who improved the performance of early lead…
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Was the Jacobi Lead Battery Ahead of Planté?
This may be your most intriguing battery read for some time. Our source is a…
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Planté’s Choice of Lead & Why He Made It
Planté’s choice of lead was an unexpected departure from a convention of using copper and…
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Cruickshank Trough Eliminates a Pile of Woes
The Voltaic Pile was a great start, and was in a sense the first real…