Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / Electrochemistry / September 2006

I have an IC3 Rayovak charger for charging batteries in 15 minutes, AA
or AAA. But the store near me only sells Energizer 15 minute
batteries. Can I charge the energizers in the IC3 charger?

I just acquired a "dead" UPS, and upon opening it up, found the absolute
worst battery mess I've ever seen.  The SLA's were bulging and some had
leaked, and the UPS needed to be disassembled in order to be able to
remove the batteries (which still needed gentle prodding with a ...

I am working on a project to verify and add more temperature
compensation tables for Open Circuit Voltage  measurements at various
States-of-Charges in the Car and Deep Cycle Battery FAQ for more types
of batteries.  I would appreciate any OCV SoC Temperature Compensation

Hi.I'm Arthur student of material engineering in Ben-Gurion
University(Israel) and now in my final project we use CV.So I want to
ask:Are the areas above and under the X axis(potential in CV plot) the
same areas ?if yes why?  as well as if no.Thank's .Arthur

Greets All
I'm going to be traveling and have a small device that needs to run 3 hours
on a 9v battery everyday.  I'm looking for a good/great rechargeable 9v
battery.  I'll have to get 2 of them so I will be able to use one while the

I have a question regarding Ampere-Hours of a battery.  I bought some
Tadiran batteries which were rated at 19 AH.  However, I was not able
to draw this much from the battery.  I was only able to draw less than
half an amp.  I understand AH to mean that the battery can put out

In an early (1915) science-fiction story, "The Man Who Rocked The
Earth",
Professor Bennie Hooker is exploring the Flying Ring spacecraft of the
unknown genius Pax:

I have several questions that are all kind of related, so I will try to list
them one at a time (please excuse any overlap).  For talking purposes lets
assume alkaline batteries are being used in an appliance such as a radio or
fan, where any where from four to eight batteries ...