Battery recycling, the Glossary
Battery recycling is a recycling activity that aims to reduce the number of batteries being disposed as municipal solid waste.[1]
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AA battery
The AA battery (or double-A battery) is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery.
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Acid
An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.
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Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)x·(C4H6)y·(C3H3N)z) is a common thermoplastic polymer.
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Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
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Automotive battery
An automotive battery, or car battery, is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle.
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Basel Convention
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.
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Battery Council International
Battery Council International (BCI) is a trade association of manufacturers, recyclers, distributors, and retailers of original-equipment and after-market automobile batteries and other batteries.
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Battery Directive
The Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC, commonly known as the Battery Directive, regulates the manufacture and disposal of batteries in the European Union with the aim of "improving the environmental performance of batteries and accumulators".
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Business Today (India)
Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992.
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Button cell
A button cell, watch battery, or coin battery is a small single-cell battery shaped as a squat cylinder typically in diameter and high – resembling a button.
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Cadmium
Cadmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cd and atomic number 48.
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Call2Recycle
Call2Recycle, a not-for-profit organization, is a battery recycling program, active in the USA and Canada.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
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A carbon footprint (or greenhouse gas footprint) is a calculated value or index that makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases that an activity, product, company or country adds to the atmosphere.
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Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Corrugated box design
Corrugated box design is the process of matching design factors for corrugated fiberboard (sometimes called corrugated cardboard) or corrugated plastic boxes with the functional physical, processing and end-use requirements.
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Disability-adjusted life year
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability, or early death.
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Duracell
Duracell Inc. is an American manufacturer of alkaline batteries, specialty cells, and rechargeables; it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Electra Battery Materials
Electra Battery Materials Corporation (EBMC, formerly First Cobalt Corp.) is a Canadian multinational corporation engaged in mining and refining raw materials for electric batteries.
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Electrek
Electrek is an American news website dedicated to electric transportation and sustainable energy.
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Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
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Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion.
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Electronic waste
Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronic devices.
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Energizer
Energizer Holdings, Inc. is an American manufacturer and one of the world's largest manufacturers of batteries, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Environmental resource management
Environmental resource management or environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
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Exide lead contamination
Exide was one of the world's largest producers, distributors and recyclers of lead-acid batteries.
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Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad (previously Frederiksstad; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway.
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Golf cart
A golf cart (alternatively known as a golf buggy or golf car) is a small motorized vehicle designed originally to carry two golfers and their golf clubs around a golf course with less effort than walking.
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Guernsey
Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.
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Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment.
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Hydrofluoric acid
Hydrofluoric acid is a solution of hydrogen fluoride (HF) in water.
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Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Hydrometallurgy is a technique within the field of extractive metallurgy, the obtaining of metals from their ores.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Journal of Power Sources
The Journal of Power Sources is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of electrochemical energy conversion (like fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and photo-electrochemical cells).
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Lead poisoning
Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body.
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Lead-acid battery
The lead-acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté.
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Lithium
Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.
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Lithium battery
Lithium battery may refer to.
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Lithium hexafluorophosphate
Lithium hexafluorophosphate is an inorganic compound with the formula LiPF6.
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Lithium-ion battery
A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids to store energy.
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Magdeburg
Magdeburg is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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Medical device
A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Mercury battery
A mercury battery (also called mercuric oxide battery, mercury cell, button cell, or Ruben-Mallory) is a non-rechargeable electrochemical battery, a primary cell.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or, if three-wheeled, a trike) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar from a saddle-style seat.
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Municipal solid waste
Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Nickel–cadmium battery
The nickel–cadmium battery (Ni–Cd battery or NiCad battery) is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes.
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A nickel–metal hydride battery (NiMH or Ni–MH) is a type of rechargeable battery.
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS or PFASs) are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain; there are 7 million such chemicals according to PubChem.
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Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.
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Plastic recycling
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products.
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Polypropylene
Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications.
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Potassium hydroxide
Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula KOH, and is commonly called caustic potash.
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Provinces and territories of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.
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Pure Earth
Pure Earth is a New York City-based international not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 that works to identify, clean up, and solve pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where high concentrations of toxic pollution have devastating health impacts, especially on children.
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Pyrometallurgy is a branch of extractive metallurgy.
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Rare-earth element
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths), are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.
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Rechargeable battery
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.
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Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
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Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Carson City, Nevada.
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Royal Mail
The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.
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Royal Society Open Science
Royal Society Open Science is a peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society since September 2014.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Sieve
A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a tool used for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for controlling the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
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Silver oxide battery
A silver oxide battery (IEC code: S) is a primary cell using silver oxide as the cathode material and zinc for the anode.
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Soil contamination
Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment.
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Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.
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Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.
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Superfund
Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).
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The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Toxic waste
Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin).
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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Ultrasonic cleaning
Ultrasonic cleaning is a process that uses ultrasound (usually from 20 to 40 kHz) to agitate a fluid, with a cleaning effect.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
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Uninterruptible power supply
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or uninterruptible power source is a type of continual power system that provides automated backup electric power to a load when the input power source or mains power fails.
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Unit operation
In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process.
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United States Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
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VRLA battery
A valve regulated lead-acid (VRLA) battery, commonly known as a sealed lead-acid (SLA) battery, is a type of lead-acid battery characterized by a limited amount of electrolyte ("starved" electrolyte) absorbed in a plate separator or formed into a gel; proportioning of the negative and positive plates so that oxygen recombination is facilitated within the cell; and the presence of a relief valve that retains the battery contents independent of the position of the cells.
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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is a European Community Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Water pollution
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.
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Yale Environment 360
Yale Environment 360 (abbreviated as E360) is an American online magazine focused on environmental journalism.
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Yale School of the Environment
Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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Zinc–air battery
A zinc–air battery is a metal–air electrochemical cell powered by the oxidation of zinc with oxygen from the air.
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Zinc–carbon battery
A zinc–carbon battery (or carbon zinc battery in U.S. English) is a dry cell primary battery that provides direct electric current from the electrochemical reaction between zinc (Zn) and manganese dioxide (MnO2) in the presence of an ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) electrolyte.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling
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