storage cell
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of storage cell
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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It took him more than 50,000 botched experiments to invent the alkaline storage cell battery and 9,000 to perfect the light bulb.
From Time • Oct. 24, 2017
The usual type of storage cell contains sheets of spongy lead separated from sheets of spongy lead peroxide in a weak solution of sulphuric acid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside this hand are "the works": an amplifier to magnify the body's muscle currents about 20,000 times, a storage cell, an electric motor and some gears.
From Time Magazine Archive
While charging the storage cell there was formed on the negative plate a coating of soft lead, and on the positive plate a coating of dark-brown oxide of lead.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
The faster these are changed into lead sulphate and water, the shorter will be the time that the storage cell can furnish a current, or the sooner it will be discharged.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.
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