"Meindert Sprang" wrote in message ...
"Capt. NealŪ" wrote in message
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So even an engineer might understand. . .
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../leadacid.html
Engineers look at a battery as a physical object while an electrician
looks
at it as a container for a chemical reactions that store and release
electricity.
Higher voltage than a fully charge battery can supply, when applied to the
battery terminals drives the chemical reaction and changes it from
releasing
electrons to storing electrons but does not reverse the current as most
dumb
engineers claim.
Read the above link carefully and click on all the links and perhaps you
will understand the error of your thinking.
Well, I did. Lucky for me, I studied chemisty as well. And what do I see in
the second picture?
The decomposition of lead and sulphuric acid on the left produces, whait a
minute... electrons!! And wait, what do I see? On the right side, these
electrons are used to combine lead oxide and sulphuric acid into
leadsulphate and water. Sooooo, I see electrons flowing THROUGH the innards
of the battery.
Care to argue with that?
Easy to argue with that. Electrons only "flow" in a conductor. A chemical
reaction is NOT a conductor. Electrons don't flow in a chemical reaction.
A chemical reaction is a chemical reaction.
These particular chemical reactions just happen to change the metal composition
in such a way as to change back and forth metals that store or release electrons
up the plates and out the top and not along a circuit through the electrolyte.
There is no "flow" in the traditional sense of the word between the positive
and negative plates. No circuit. Where there is no circuit there is no flow.
CN