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Parallel Connection
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A circuit in which battery poles
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Paste
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Mixture of lead oxide and sulphuric
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Pasting
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Operation of applying paste to the grids.
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Pellet
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Active material or dried paste bounded by two neighboring horizontal grid bars and two neighboring vertical bars.
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Plate
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Pasted grid.
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Polarization
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Difference between the actual and equilibrium potentials of an electrode. It is in the nature of a counter potential.
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Porosity
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Percentage of total (apparent) volume occupied by voids.
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Positive Plate
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Plates which form the positive
electrode, the active material of which is chiefly lead dioxide.
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Potential
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Electromotive force,voltage
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Power
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Rate of doing work or rate at which energy
is releazed or consumed, expressed in terms of watts.
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Primary Battery
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A battery which cannot be recharged. Also called dry cell or dry battery.
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