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Ian Johnston
 
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:07:23 UTC, Ronald Raygun
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: What exactly happens at the microscopic level may well be complex and
: diverse, but the current passing through any surface you'd care to cut
: through any cell will be the same.

Is that strictly true? When a cell is charging, with electrochemical
processes taking place at the plates, does the charging current still
exist between them? It wouldn't in a capacitor, though I suppose the
displacemet current would even up the score a bit there.

Ian


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