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An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...

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Primary cell Primary cell A primary cell is any kind of battery in which the electrochemical reaction is not reversible, rendering the cell non-rechargeable. A common example of a primary cell is the disposable battery. Unlike a secondary cell, the reaction cannot be reversed by running a current into the cell; the chemical... s or non-rechargeable batteries	Secondary cells or rechargeable batteries	Batteries by application
Alkaline battery Alkaline battery Alkaline batteries are a type of primary batteries dependent upon the reaction between zinc and manganese dioxide . A rechargeable alkaline battery allows reuse of specially designed cells.... Aluminium battery Aluminium battery Aluminium–air batteries or Al–air batteries produce electricity from the reaction of oxygen in the air with aluminium. They have one of the highest energy densities of all batteries, but they are not widely used because of previous problems with cost, shelf-life, start-up time, and byproduct... Atomic battery Atomic battery The terms atomic battery, nuclear battery, tritium battery and radioisotope generator are used to describe a device which uses the emissions from a radioactive isotope to generate electricity. Like nuclear reactors they generate electricity from atomic energy, but differ in that they do not use a... Optoelectric nuclear battery Optoelectric nuclear battery An opto-electric nuclear battery is a device that converts nuclear energy into light, which it then uses to generate electrical energy. A beta-emitter such as technetium-99 or strontium-90 is suspended in a gas or liquid containing luminescent gas molecules of the excimer type, constituting a "dust... Nuclear micro-battery Nuclear micro-battery The new generation of swarm and communicating devices will explore new approaches: supplying information using power supplies generated from the world of living organisms or ATP molecules , micro-internal combustion engines, or even nuclear micro-batteries which are far removed from conventional... Bunsen cell Bunsen cell The Bunsen cell is a zinc-carbon primary cell composed of a zinc anode in dilute sulfuric acid separated by a porous pot from a carbon cathode in nitric or chromic acid.- Cell details :... Chromic acid cell Chromic acid cell The Chromic acid cell was a type of primary cell which used chromic acid as a depolarizer. The chromic acid was usually made by acidifying a solution of potassium dichromate. The old name for potassium dichromate was potassium bichromate and the cell was often called a Bichromate cell... Clark cell Clark cell The Clark cell, invented by English engineer Josiah Latimer Clark in 1873, is a wet-chemical cell that produces a highly stable voltage usable as a laboratory standard.-Chemistry:... Daniell cell Daniell cell The Daniell cell was invented in 1836 by John Frederic Daniell, a British chemist and meteorologist, and consisted of a copper pot filled with a copper sulfate solution, in which was immersed an unglazed earthenware container filled with sulfuric acid and a zinc electrode... Dry cell Dry Cell -Dry Cell's formation:Part of the band formed in 1998 when guitarist Danny Hartwell and drummer Brandon Brown met at the Ratt Show on the Sunset Strip. They later met up with then-vocalist Judd Gruenbaum. The original name of the band was "Beyond Control".... Earth battery Earth battery An Earth battery is a pair of electrodes made of two dissimilar metals, such as iron and copper, which are buried in the soil or immersed in the sea. Earth batteries act as water activated batteries and if the plates are sufficiently far apart, they can tap telluric currents... Frog battery Frog battery A frog battery is an electrochemical battery consisting of a number of dead frogs , which form the cells of the battery connected together in a series arrangement. It is a kind of biobattery... Galvanic cell Galvanic cell A Galvanic cell, or Voltaic cell, named after Luigi Galvani, or Alessandro Volta respectively, is an electrochemical cell that derives electrical energy from spontaneous redox reaction taking place within the cell... Grove cell Grove cell The Grove cell was an early electric primary cell named after its inventor, British chemist William Robert Grove, and consisted of a zinc anode in dilute sulfuric acid and a platinum cathode in concentrated nitric acid, the two separated by a porous ceramic pot.-Cell details:The Grove cell voltage... Leclanché cell Leclanché cell Georges Leclanché invented and patented his battery, the Leclanché cell, in 1866. The battery contained a conducting solution of ammonium chloride, a cathode of carbon, a depolarizer of manganese dioxide, and an anode of zinc... Lemon battery Lemon battery A lemon battery is a device used in experiments proposed in many science textbooks around the world. It is made by inserting two different metallic objects, for example a galvanized nail and a copper coin, into a lemon. The copper coin serves as the positive electrode or cathode and the galvanized... Lithium battery Lithium battery Lithium batteries are disposable batteries that have lithium metal or lithium compounds as an anode. Depending on the design and chemical compounds used, lithium cells can produce voltages from 1.5 V to about 3.7 V, over twice the voltage of an ordinary zinc–carbon battery or alkaline battery... Lithium air battery Lithium air battery The lithium–air battery is a class of lithium battery that employs a cathode which relies on oxygen reduction forming a discharge product... Mercury battery Mercury battery A mercury battery is a non-rechargeable electrochemical battery, a primary cell. Due to the content of mercury, and the resulting environmental concerns, the sale of mercury batteries is banned in many countries. Both ANSI and IEC have withdrawn standards for mercury batteries... Molten salt battery Molten salt battery Molten salt batteries or liquid sodium battery are a class of primary cell and secondary cell high-temperature electric battery that use molten salts as an electrolyte. They offer both a higher energy density through the proper selection of reactant pairs as well as a higher power density by means... Nickel oxyhydroxide battery Nickel oxyhydroxide battery Nickel oxyhydroxide battery is a type of primary cell . NiOx batteries excel in high-drain applications such as digital cameras, and in this role, they can provide up to twice the life of an alkaline battery.... Oxyride battery Organic radical battery Organic radical battery Organic radical battery is a new battery technology being developed by NEC.- Advantages :ORB's are characterized by an extremely thin profile , flexibility, and very fast charge time , in addition to a relatively high energy density... Paper battery Paper battery A paper battery is a battery engineered to use a spacer formed largely of cellulose .This technology can also be used in supercapacitors.... Pulvermacher's chain Pulvermacher's chain The Pulvermacher chain, or in full as it was sold the Pulvermacher hydro-electric chain, was a type of voltaic battery sold in the second half of the 19th century for medical applications... Reserve battery Reserve battery A reserve battery, also called stand-by battery, is a primary battery where part is isolated until the battery needs to be used. When long storage is required, reserve batteries are often used, since the active chemicals of the cell are segregated until needed, thus reducing self-discharge... Silver-oxide battery Silver-oxide battery A silver oxide battery , not to be confused with a similar but different silver–zinc battery, which is a secondary cell, is a primary cell with relatively very high energy/weight ratio. They are costly due to the high price of silver... Solid-state battery Solid-state battery In solid-state ionics, a solid-state battery is a battery that has both solid electrodes and solid electrolytes. As a group, these materials are very good conductors of ions but are essentially insulating toward electrons, properties that are prerequisites for any electrolyte... Voltaic pile Voltaic pile A voltaic pile is a set of individual Galvanic cells placed in series. The voltaic pile, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800, was the first electric battery... Penny battery Penny battery The penny battery is a voltaic pile which uses various coinage as the metal disks of a traditional voltaic pile. The coins are stacked with pieces of electrolyte soaked paper in between... Trough battery Trough battery The trough battery was a variant of Alessandro Volta's Voltaic Pile and was invented by William Cruickshank circa 1800.-Disadvantage of the pile:... Water-activated battery Water-activated battery A water-activated battery is a disposable reserve battery that does not contain an electrolyte and hence produces no voltage until it is soaked in water for several minutes.-Description:... Weston cell Weston cell The Weston cell, invented by Edward Weston in 1893, is a wet-chemical cell that produces a highly stable voltage suitable as a laboratory standard for calibration of voltmeters... Zinc-air battery Zinc-air battery Zinc–air batteries , and zinc–air fuel cells, are electro-chemical batteries powered by oxidizing zinc with oxygen from the air. These batteries have high energy densities and are relatively inexpensive to produce... Zinc-carbon battery Zinc-carbon battery A zinc–carbon dry cell or battery is packaged in a zinc can that serves as both a container and negative terminal. It was developed from the wet Leclanché cell . The positive terminal is a carbon rod surrounded by a mixture of manganese dioxide and carbon powder. The electrolyte used is a paste of... Zinc chloride battery	Flow battery Flow battery A flow battery is a form of rechargeable battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive species flows through an electrochemical cell that converts chemical energy directly to electricity... Vanadium redox battery Vanadium redox battery The vanadium redox battery is a type of rechargeable flow battery that employs vanadium ions in different oxidation states to store chemical potential energy... Zinc-bromine flow battery Zinc-bromine flow battery The zinc–bromine flow battery is a type of hybrid flow battery. A solution of zinc bromide is stored in two tanks. When the battery is charged or discharged the solutions are pumped through a reactor stack and back into the tanks. One tank is used to store the electrolyte for the positive... Fuel cell Fuel cell A fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Hydrogen is the most common fuel, but hydrocarbons such as natural gas and alcohols like methanol are sometimes used... Lead-acid battery Lead-acid battery Lead–acid batteries, invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté, are the oldest type of rechargeable battery. Despite having a very low energy-to-weight ratio and a low energy-to-volume ratio, their ability to supply high surge currents means that the cells maintain a relatively large... Deep cycle battery Deep cycle battery A deep-cycle battery is a lead-acid battery designed to be regularly deeply discharged using most of its capacity. In contrast, starter batteries are designed to deliver short, high-current bursts for cranking the engine, thus frequently discharged of only a very small part of their capacity... VRLA battery VRLA battery A VRLA battery is a type of low-maintenance lead–acid rechargeable battery. Because of their construction, VRLA batteries do not require regular addition of water to the cells.... AGM battery Gel battery Lithium air battery Lithium air battery The lithium–air battery is a class of lithium battery that employs a cathode which relies on oxygen reduction forming a discharge product... Lithium-ion battery Beltway battery Beltway battery A Beltway battery is a lithium-ion battery technology invented by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .A Beltway battery utilizes a bypass system that allows the lithium-ions to enter and leave the battery at a speed great enough to fully charge a battery in under a minute... Lithium ion polymer battery Lithium ion polymer battery Lithium-ion polymer batteries, polymer lithium ion, or more commonly lithium polymer batteries are rechargeable batteries... Lithium iron phosphate battery Lithium iron phosphate battery The lithium iron phosphate battery, also called LFP battery, is a type of rechargeable battery, specifically a lithium-ion battery, which uses LiFePO4 as a cathode material.-History:... Lithium-sulfur battery Lithium-titanate battery Lithium-titanate battery The lithium–titanate battery is a type of rechargeable battery, which has the advantage of being faster to charge than other lithium-ion batteries. Some analysts speculate that lithium–titanate batteries will power electric cars of the future.... Molten salt battery Molten salt battery Molten salt batteries or liquid sodium battery are a class of primary cell and secondary cell high-temperature electric battery that use molten salts as an electrolyte. They offer both a higher energy density through the proper selection of reactant pairs as well as a higher power density by means... Nickel-cadmium battery Nickel-cadmium battery The nickel–cadmium battery ' is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes.... Nickel-cadmium battery vented cell type Nickel-cadmium battery vented cell type Vented cell is a type of nickel–cadmium battery that is used when large capacities and high discharge rates are required. The term vented refers to a difference to common NiCd batteries which are sealed.... Nickel hydrogen battery Nickel hydrogen battery A nickel–hydrogen battery is a rechargeable electrochemical power source based on nickel and hydrogen. It differs from a nickel–metal hydride battery by the use of hydrogen in a pressurized cell at up to 1200 psi pressure.The cathode is made up of a dry sintered porous nickel plaque, which... Nickel-iron battery Nickel-iron battery The nickel–iron battery is a storage battery having a nickel oxide-hydroxide cathode and an iron anode, with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide. The active materials are held in nickel-plated steel tubes or perforated pockets... Nickel metal hydride battery Nickel metal hydride battery A nickel–metal hydride cell, abbreviated NiMH, is a type of rechargeable battery similar to the nickel–cadmium cell. The NiMH battery uses a hydrogen-absorbing alloy for the negative electrode instead of cadmium. As in NiCd cells, the positive electrode is nickel oxyhydroxide... Low self-discharge NiMH battery Low self-discharge NiMH battery The low self-discharge nickel-metal hydride battery was introduced in November 2005. These batteries were developed by Sanyo, who called them "eneloop". Subsequently, other manufacturers also offered LSD NiMH.... Nickel-zinc battery Nickel-zinc battery The nickel–zinc battery is a type of rechargeable battery that may be used in cordless power tools, cordless telephones, digital cameras, battery operated lawn and garden tools, professional photography, flashlights, electric bikes, and light electric vehicle sectors.Larger nickel–zinc battery... Organic radical battery Organic radical battery Organic radical battery is a new battery technology being developed by NEC.- Advantages :ORB's are characterized by an extremely thin profile , flexibility, and very fast charge time , in addition to a relatively high energy density... Polymer-based battery Polymer-based battery A polymer-based battery uses organic materials instead of bulk metals to form a battery.-History:Organic batteries are an alternative to the metal reaction battery technologies, and much research is taking place in this area. Waseda University was approached by NEC in 2001, and began to focus on... Polysulfide bromide battery Polysulfide bromide battery The PolySulfide Bromide battery is a regenerative fuel cell involving a reversible electrochemical reaction between two salt-solution electrolytes: sodium bromide and sodium polysulfide.-External links:*... Potassium-ion battery Potassium-ion battery The potassium-ion battery was first invented by the American/Iranian chemist, Ali Eftekhari, in 2004 as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. The battery uses Prussian blue as the cathode material for its stability, the prototype could be successfully used for millions of cycles... Rechargeable alkaline battery Rechargeable alkaline battery Rechargeable alkaline battery is a type of alkaline battery that is rechargeable. The first generation rechargeable alkaline technology was developed by Battery Technologies Inc in Canada and licensed to Pure Energy, EnviroCell, Rayovac, and Grandcell... Silicon air battery Sodium-ion battery Sodium-ion battery Sodium-ion batteries are a type of reusable battery that uses sodium-ions as a way to store power in a compact system. This type of battery is still in a developmental phase but is forecasted to be a cheaper, more durable way to store energy than commonly used lithium-ion batteries... Sodium-sulfur battery Sodium-sulfur battery A sodium–sulfur battery or liquid metal battery is a type of molten metal battery constructed from sodium and sulfur . This type of battery has a high energy density, high efficiency of charge/discharge and long cycle life, and is fabricated from inexpensive materials... Super iron battery Super iron battery The Super-iron battery is a new class of rechargeable electric battery."Super-iron" is a moniker for a special kind of ferrate salt... Zinc-bromine flow battery Zinc-bromine flow battery The zinc–bromine flow battery is a type of hybrid flow battery. A solution of zinc bromide is stored in two tanks. When the battery is charged or discharged the solutions are pumped through a reactor stack and back into the tanks. One tank is used to store the electrolyte for the positive... Zinc matrix battery Zinc matrix battery The zinc matrix battery is a rechargeable silver-oxide battery designed by Zinc Matrix Power. The chemistry consists mainly of zinc, silver, and water. The battery has been designed to be free of thermal runaway, which has been the main downside for lithium-ion batteries...	Backup battery Backup battery A backup battery provides power to a system when the primary source of power is unavailable. Backup batteries range from small single cells to retain clock time and date in computers, up to large battery room facilities that power uninterruptible power supply systems for large data centers... Baghdad Battery Baghdad Battery The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is the common name for a number of artifacts created in Mesopotamia, during the dynasties of Parthian or Sassanid period , and probably discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a, near Baghdad, Iraq... Battery (vacuum tube) Battery pack Battery pack A battery pack is a set of any number of identical batteries or individual battery cells. They may be configured in a series, parallel or a mixture of both to deliver the desired voltage, capacity, or power density... Battery room Battery room A battery room is a room in a facility used to house batteries for backup or uninterruptible power systems. Battery rooms are found in telecommunication central offices, and to provide standby power to computing equipment in datacenters... Biobattery Biobattery Biobattery is an electricity generation device that utilizes energy sources such as carbohydrates, protein, amino acids, fat by digesting enzymes- Passive :... Button cell Button cell A watch battery or button cell is a small single cell battery shaped as a squat cylinder typically 5 to 12 mm in diameter and 1 to 6 mm high—like a button on a garment, hence the name. Button cells are used to power small portable electronics devices such as wrist watches, pocket... Car battery Car battery An automotive battery is a type of rechargeable battery that supplies electric energy to an automobile. Usually this refers to an SLI battery to power the starter motor, the lights, and the ignition system of a vehicle’s engine... CMOS battery Common battery Common battery In telecommunication, a Common battery is a single electrical power source used to energize more than one circuit, electronic component, equipment, or system.... Commodity cell Commodity cell Cells are individual cylindrical or rectangular energy storage devices inside a battery.Commodity cells are the kind of cells used in laptops and cell phones, as the energy storage element in its batteries... Electric vehicle battery Electric vehicle battery An electric vehicle battery or traction battery is a rechargeable battery used for propulsion of battery electric vehicles... Flow batteries Flow battery A flow battery is a form of rechargeable battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive species flows through an electrochemical cell that converts chemical energy directly to electricity... Inverter battery Lantern battery Lantern battery A lantern battery is a rectangular, alkaline or zinc-carbon primary battery used primarily in flashlights or lanterns. Lantern batteries are physically larger and consequently offer higher capacity than the more common torch batteries... Nanobatteries Nanobatteries Nanobatteries are fabricated batteries employing technology at the nanoscale, a scale of minuscule particles that measure less than 100 nanometers or 100x10−9 meters... Nanowire battery Nanowire battery A nanowire battery is a lithium-ion battery invented by a team led by Dr. Yi Cui at Stanford University in 2007. The team's invention consists of a stainless steel anode covered in silicon nanowires, to replace the traditional graphite anode... Local battery Polapulse battery Polaroid SX-70 The SX-70 is a folding single lens reflex Land Camera which was produced by the Polaroid Corporation from 1972-1981.- History :Though Polaroid had considered a Henry Dreyfus-designed SLR for its Colorpack film, the SX-70 was the first instant SLR and the first camera to use Polaroid's new SX-70... Photoflash battery Photoflash Battery A Photoflash battery is a specialized zinc-carbon battery optimized to provide a high electric current output for a short duration of time, such as required to fire a flashbulb... Smart battery system Smart battery system Smart Battery System is a specification for determining accurate battery capacity readings. It allows operating systems to perform power management operations based on remaining estimated run times. Through this communication, the system also controls the amount the battery is charged. ... Thin film rechargeable lithium battery Thin film rechargeable lithium battery Thin film lithium ion batteries are similar to lithium-ion batteries, but they are composed of thin materials, some only nanometers or micrometers thick, which allow for the finished battery to be just millimeters thick. They have been developed and advanced primarily within the last decade... Traction battery Watch battery Water-activated battery Water-activated battery A water-activated battery is a disposable reserve battery that does not contain an electrolyte and hence produces no voltage until it is soaked in water for several minutes.-Description:... Wet cell Zamboni pile Zamboni pile The Zamboni pile is an early electric battery, invented by Giuseppe Zamboni in 1812.A Zamboni pile is an "electrostatic battery" and is constructed from discs of silver foil, zinc foil, and paper...

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