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…
Browsing: ions
Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Why Some Fruit and Veg Conduct Electricity
That old fruit battery experiment comes around each year, as regular as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and…
Battery Basics
Balancing Flow of Ions in the Electrolyte
On first sight the electrolyte plays a secondary role in a storage battery. However, when…
Battery Basics
Overall Battery Potential Determines Voltage
We spoke about electrode potential in a previous post, and the need to balance it…
Battery Technical
The Miracle of Recharging a Battery
We have reached a point in our story where a battery has cycled most of…
Battery Technical
The Secret Battery Manager Electrolyte
Our first two posts in this short series spoke of the electrodes in a battery,…
Battery Basics
How Your Main Electric Car Battery Works
If you would like to know how your main electric car battery works, then we…
Battery Basics
All About Batteries – The Very Basic Facts
Sometimes it pays to take a step back, and review the basics behind the solid,…
Battery Basics
The Flow of Electrons Inside Battery Cells
Allessandro Volta produced the world’s first electric battery in 1799, although he only reported his…
Battery Technical
Chemistry of a Battery Part 2: Electrolyte
The electrodes we see peeping out of battery casings are just one part of the…