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What is a battery in electricity?


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  1. A battery is a device made up of one or more electrochemical cells connected to the outside world in the field of electrochemistry. Other electrical gadgets are frequently powered by such devices.
  2. A power source for electrical devices is an electric battery, which is made up of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections.
  3. When a battery is delivering electricity, the positive terminal is the cathode and the negative terminal is the anode.
  4. The negative terminal is the source of electrons that will flow through an external electric circuit to the positive terminal.
  5. When a battery is connected to an external electric load, a redox reaction occurs, changing high-energy reactants to lower-energy products and supplying the free-energy difference to the external circuit as electrical energy.
  6. The term "battery" originally referred to a device made up of several cells,

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