[ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

What's old is made to seem new. Yet again.

 

 Wayne
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2018 6:39 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?

Thanks,

So it's all hype and slight of hand from Madison Avenue.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 06/09/2018 08:00 PM, Tom Lee wrote:
> Yes, that's correct. Ammonium chloride ("sal ammoniac" in oldspeak) is
> the electrolyte in carbon-zinc batteries. It may very well be that a
> little marketing effort went into deliberately confusing the public into
> thinking that "zinc chloride" was something different (and perhaps
> better), but it's all the same thing.
>
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> On 6/9/2018 4:40 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
>> Sounds like "carbon-zinc" and "zinc-chloride" may be essentially the
>> same type, according to The Great Google.
>> In the familiar carbon-zinc cell the carbon rod was only an electron
>> collector terminal for manganese dioxide or another chemical that
>> provided the cathode action. The zinc was the anode material.  So a
>> "zinc-chloride" battery is just advertising the chemical used in a
>> zinc and carbon cell design.
>>
>> Wayne
>> WB4OGM
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
>> To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2018 5:21 pm
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?
>>
>> Those old ones were carbon-zinc.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bill KU8H
>>
>> On 06/09/2018 07:05 PM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
>> > I thought zinc chloride was the type used before "alkaline" cells, the
>> > old "heavy duty" type. They can corrode and leak pretty effectively.
>> >
>> > Peter
>> > kb2vtl
>> >
>> > On 6/9/2018 7:01 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
>> >> I just stopped by the local Harbor Freight and bought a pack of 24 AA
>> >> and 24 AAA for $3 each. They say they are "Zinc chloride." Whathell
>> >> is zinc chloride? And do they corrode as bad as the alkalines? I
>> >> guess I will find out.
>> >> Wayne
>> >> WB5WSV
>> >>
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