How Batteries Work
Batteries are used daily and they are found everywhere from
cars to all sorts of electronics and devices. If you think about it,
battery usage is pretty heavy in the modern day because they are typically used
everyday, and everywhere. Knowing the importance of energy storage in batteries and its high
usage, it is important to know how these batteries work. A
battery contains stored energy within the cells in the battery. A battery contains important
components called the anode which is an electrolyte and the cathode which is
the metal. Visually this can be seen as the positive and negative terminals of
the battery. When these terminals are connected in a circuit, electricity is
produced. The circuit connecting the terminals allows the circulation of
electrons and the cathode and the anode to react with each other in a chemical
process where the metal reacts with the electrolytes creating heat and hydrogen
gas which is the energy that flows through the circuit. Different elements of
anodes and cathodes can be used to create different types of batteries, where
the reaction between the two determines the amount of energy produced by a
battery. Batteries power lots of devices, so it's interesting to know that the batteries powering your electronic devices work through a reaction between natural elements.
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