[ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Wayne:

Not quite.  Modern batteries, like Ever Ready/Energizer, are much better than prior designs.
In 1991 the EU banned Mercury in products.  This immediately showed up as a ban of Mercury batteries ( all the military 
batteries with model numbers of BA-1000 to BA-1999) plus civilian Mercury batteries.
http://www.prc68.com/I/TS183.shtml#Hg
But . . . Mercury was also used on the carbon rod of the Carbon-Zonc battery as a depolarizer and it took a lot of work 
to replace that.
Modern batteries have much lower internal resistance, i.e. they can supply much higher currents (Flash Amps) than the 
older chemistries.
http://www.prc68.com/I/No6.shtml#FA

There's a YouTube video showing that if you connect a series string of AA cells (maybe 10 of them?) and put that in 
parallel with a dead car battery for a few minutes, you can start the car.

-- 
Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html

-------- Original Message --------
> What's old is made to seem new. Yet again.
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> -----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.

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