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ah the humble battery it makes everything from cruising down the

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Boulevard in your car or cruising for a date on Tinder possible but have you

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ever wondered how those little cylinders you can buy at gas stations and grocery

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stores of those blocky things that you put in your laptop can store so much

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energy well despite the massive diversity in battery types they all rely

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on the same sort of chemical reaction to create energy which is actually very

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similar to that Breaking Bad episode where Walter White builds his own

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freaking battery out of coins and Weare what a badass a typical alkaline battery

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you can buy at the store to put into your remote or whatever else contains an

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anode on the negative end a cathode on the positive end an electrolyte paste

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which contains ions which are electrically charged molecules different

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materials make up the anode and cathode in a plain old alkaline battery the

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anode is made of zinc like what you'd find in coins while the cathode is

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comprised of maganese dioxide which may have actually been used as a Fire

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Starter by by cave people but anyways

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the ions in the electrolyte can combine with the zinc resulting in a reaction

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that releases electrons when you close the circuit by putting the battery

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inside of your favorite electronic device negatively charged electrons

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leave the zinc anode go through your device providing electrical power and

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flow back into the positively charged cathode these chemicals are readily

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available and cheap making alkaline batteries readily available and

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affordable able and convenient and etc etc but because chemical reactions used

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up all the different substances inside of the battery and are hard to reverse

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they're usually useless once they die in

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fact trying to recharge a regular alkaline battery won't precisely result

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in the opposite chemical reactions meaning you could wind up with dangerous

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byproducts leaking everywhere so don't

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do it fortunately many other types of batteries are rechargeable because they

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use different chemicals that react in a way that make running the discharging

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reaction in Reverse both easy and most

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importantly safe today the most common

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type of rechargeable batteries that you can buy in double A or AAA sizes is the

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nickel metal hydride battery or NIMH not

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only are n imh Batteries rechargeable but they also tend to last quite a bit

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longer than their alkaline counterparts on one charge making them a good choice

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for things like digital cameras that suck battery life fairly quickly however

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they can be a bit tricky to recharge so make sure you're getting a quality

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charger approved for the use of NIMH batteries don't try to use older

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Chargers designed for largely obsolete nickel cadmium batteries which could

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leave your NIMH batteries undercharged or even damaged not not good well okay

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Luke that's all fine and dandy for my digital camera but what about the

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batteries in my laptop or smartphone are those an imh actually those are usually

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lithium ion batteries not n imh Batteries lithium ion batteries are the

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kind of power source of choice for many rechargeable Electronics not only

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because of their high energy density and

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longer run times but they don't suffer from issues such as the memory effect

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which can affect uh other kinds of batteries and cause them to lose

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capacity if they aren't fully drained before being recharged since we're

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always unplugging and replugging in our laptops tablets and phones lithium ion

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batteries are a great choice currently

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since they don't care how much juice they have inside themselves when you go

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to plug them back in they will just charge all the way up some newer devices

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have even taken lithium ion batteries a step farther with Lithium Polymer

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designs that contain electrolyte gel making it possible to fit the battery

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into a small flexible package ideal for thin higher performance devices like

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high-end smartphones but even newer rechargeable batteries aren't perfect

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over time all those charge and discharge Cycles will cause batteries to wear out

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due to chemical reactions proceeding not quite perfectly and of course most of us

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are still frustrated with our batteries dying after just a day's use or just a

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few hours with something like a laptop so as we continually demand faster

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mobile devices with longer battery life there are a number of experimental

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battery technologies in the works that could one day make charging your phone

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every night a thing of the past oh please make that happen these batteries

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could be things such as ceramic cathodes or glass electrolytes and are not only

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more durable but could last several times larger than current rechargeable

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battery Tech due to higher energy densities Apple has been heavily rumored

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to be looking at Ceramic batteries for some of its future products so in the

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near future you might only have to remember to charge your iPhone once

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every few days especially important if your usual activities consist of walking

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around Las Vegas with like a selfie stick you know who hasn't used batteries

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