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Build an Aluminum Air Battery at Home
Metal-air batteries are back on the agenda, because with the right choice of metals they…
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Battery Carbon Footprints Becoming Critical
Carbon footprints mattered little to average consumer minds even twenty years ago. However, nowadays things…
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Prove the Principles of Electromagnetism
Did you visit a metal-recycling site, and watch them lifting scrap with a giant magnet?…
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Imperfect Personal Battery Storage Solution
This is a second article in a short series in which we compare batteries and…
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What Happens Inside a Leclanche Cell?
Okay, so you went on a school expedition where they showed you a Leclanche cell?…
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Who Created the First Multiple Leyden Jar?
There are three ‘contestants’ to this contest, namely Winkler, Gralath and Franklin. Although they lived…
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Benjamin Franklin Builds a Capacitor Bank
Leyden Jars were a hugely significant invention when they burst on the world stage in…
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Johann Heinrich Winckler Electrician With Soul
There were no qualified structural engineers when Greeks and Romans built their magnificent buildings. Likewise,…
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Why Lithium Battery Safety Matters
Lithium batteries have many benefits, but we do need to install them and use them…
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Zinc Battery Future for a Sustainable Economy
Zinc-carbon batteries trace their history to Leclanché cells, after Carl Gassner introduced a zinc sheet-metal-anode…