{"id":178,"date":"2019-01-03T03:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oriccabattery.wordpress.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2019-01-03T03:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:26:52","slug":"how-do-batteries-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/178","title":{"rendered":"How Do Batteries Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\nThese days, batteries are practically everywhere. In fact, we\u2019ve allowed\n our society to become totally dependent upon them. They\u2019re so \nubiquitous that most people take them for granted. Think about it: Do \nyou really know how a battery works, or do you just count on it without a\n second thought?
\nBefore we dive into the specifics, we\u2019ll give you a few hints. Contrary to some popular beliefs:
\nIt\u2019s not magic.\nIt\u2019s not a government conspiracy.\nThere\u2019s no pink bunny armed with a bass drum and a pair of retro shades.
How Do Batteries Work: Defining Battery Terms<\/strong>\nThe most important step of any technical explanation of how do batteries\n work is actually establishing what the terms in question mean. \nOtherwise, when we say electrolyte, you might think that we\u2019re talking \nabout a red Gatorade; and when we say cathode, you might think that \nwe\u2019re talking about next year\u2019s hottest baby name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnode: Negatively charged electrode (metallic conductor) that loses electrons to the cathode.
\n Cathode: Positively charged electrode (metallic conductor) that accepts electrons from the anode.
\n Electrolyte: Ionic solution that reacts with the two aforementioned electrodes to give them +\/- charges.
\n Separator: Prevents electrons from flowing inside the battery \n(short-circuiting); instead, this forces them to flow through the wire \n(thus creating electricity and powering the attached device).
\n Electricity: The flow of electrons through a conductive path, such as a wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Do Batteries Work: Chemical Reaction<\/strong>
\n And now for the moment we\u2019ve all been waiting for: How do batteries work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe two electrodes are situated at opposite ends of a battery. They\u2019re \nboth immersed in an electrolyte fluid. For example, in a typical \nalkaline battery, the one electrode is comprised of zinc, while the \nother is comprised of manganese dioxide, and the electrolyte is \npotassium hydroxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThis sparks a chemical reaction between the ions of the electrolytes and\n the metals of each respective electrode: One becomes the negatively \ncharged anode (i.e., it has an excess buildup of electrons), while the \nother becomes the positively charged cathode (i.e., it has a \nproportional deficiency of electrons).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThis means that there\u2019s now an electrical difference between the anode \nand the cathode. In other words, the electrons that have built up in the\n anode want to move toward the electron-starved cathode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nHowever, there\u2019s a separator to ensure that they don\u2019t make this journey\n within the battery. By attaching a device to the battery (remember that\n you attach it at both the negative and the positive terminal), you\u2019re \ncreating a circuit, or, a path through which the electrons can travel \nfrom the anode to the cathode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWhile they\u2019re on their way, your device basically siphons off a bunch of them as a power source. And there you have it. Voila!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These days, batteries are practically everywhere. In fact, we\u2019ve allowed our society to become totally dependent upon them. They\u2019re so ubiquitous that most people take them for granted. Think about it: Do you really know how a battery works, or do you just count on it without a second thought? Before we dive into the … Continue reading “How Do Batteries Work?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-batteries-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}