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Liquid Sodium Batteries: The Ones to Watch
It becomes increasingly obvious that our zero-carbon future depends on cheap reliable batteries. Although it…
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Lithium Salts Improve Lithium Battery Health
We were surprised to discover lithium exists throughout our nervous system. It interacts with our…
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Light Up Your Life With Lemon Batteries
If we strip away the glittery labels and marketing hype, all a battery contains are…
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Earth Batteries Could They Be Possible
In their simplest form, batteries are two different metals that exchange ions via an electrolyte…
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Basic Battery Facts & What Batteries Do
Batteries are stores of energy that become electricity when we release it. This amount of…
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How Button Batteries Work: An Experiment
Button batteries, sometimes known as penny ones, are among the smartest, cleverest devices in the…
Battery Experiments
Power from Zinc and Copper in Action
Alessandro Volta made the world’s first battery in 1791. We don’t know why he piled…
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Electrical Conductors We Call Electrodes
Electrodes are a special class of electrical conductors. Because they are able to contact a…
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Glass Recycling for Better Batteries
The race is on to discover better batteries for electronic devices. Batteries that will charge…
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A Suntan for Your Smartphone
It sometimes seems as if our colleagues in the lithium industry emptied out their bathroom…