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Batteries and Fuel Cells

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A battery is a device which can store chemical energy and, on demand, convert it into electrical energy to drive an external circuit. The importance of batteries to modern life surely requires no emphasis. Even so, there may be a tendency to overlook their diversity and the scale on which they are used; for example, in size they range from a fraction of a cubic centimetre for a hearing aid battery, to many cubic decimetres for some industrial and military versions, and in the western world we manufacture 4–10 batteries per year per head of population.

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    Derek Pletcher

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Pletcher, D. (1984). Batteries and Fuel Cells. In: Industrial Electrochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1872-1_10

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