Battery Basics
The Best Primary AA Batteries for You
It’s a fair question to ask, which are the best primary AA batteries for me?…
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Battery Technical
Nominal Voltage of Different Batteries
The nominal voltage of different batteries is the claimed power their manufacturers assign to them.…
Battery Basics
How a Lead Battery Makes Electricity Simply
We have been writing about fuel cells lately, which relate to batteries but are quite…
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Alkaline Fuel Cells with Cheaper Membranes
Hydrogen fuel cells have proved almost prohibitively expensive on account of their manufacturing cost, and…
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Reasons for Capacity Loss in Batteries
Capacity is the amount of energy in a particular battery. This depends on the number…
Battery Basics
Lead-Acid Battery Operating Principles
Lead-acid battery operating principles depend on their active materials controlling charging and discharging. These include…
Battery Experiments
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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Phenomenon of Battery Self-Discharge & Why
One of the less-efficient aspects of rechargeable batteries, is their chemistry is a two-edged sword.…
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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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Electrode Chemistry Inside a Storage Battery
We established in a previous post how electrons travel between electrodes in a battery to…