> Not. I disassembled a fair few of them in my childhood, e.g. for carbon anodes > for chemistry experiments. Yep, you should talk to Igor, he is sharing the same passion for batteries... :-) (As I told him, it could have been a reinforcement frame in a light casing...)
> > In fact, I don't know of any > > compound combination that produces an (electrochemical(*)) potential of > > 1.5V! > Carbon-Zinc does that nicely, and has done for centuries. Well, since Carbon and Zinc got formed in the Sun, I guess. (Yeah, yeah, actually, until Galvano or Volta put them togther in the 18th century...:-) (Anyway, I was confronted off-list with a gaping hole in my memory concerning redox and fysical chemistry and was pointed to a nice site on battery technology.) Off to bed now... (5am here and in 4hrs I have to get up, phhhewww Thanks! Guy
