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a chemistry experiment quietly hostage in your pocket, slowly dying for your attention
means A device that stores chemical energy and releases it as electricity to power something, or — in legal terms — the act of physically striking another person.
from From Latin 'battuere' (to beat or strike), which gave Old French 'baterie' — originally a beating or bombardment, then a cluster of artillery 'beating' the enemy. From 'a group of guns acting together' the sense drifted to 'a group of cells acting together,' which is what Benjamin Franklin reportedly called his linked-up electrical jars. So your phone's battery and an assault charge are both, etymologically, a good thrashing.
- first one
- Volta stacked metal discs in 1800 to make it
- baghdad mystery
- 2000-year-old jars may be ancient batteries
- lithium fear
- too much current and it becomes a tiny bomb
- charge cycles
- every full charge slowly ages it toward death
- frog legs
- Galvani's twitching frogs inspired the whole idea
duracell energizer rivalry — two companies controlling 60% of the us alkaline battery market since the 1980s
tesla gigafactory nevada — world's largest battery manufacturing facility producing lithium-ion cells since 2017