{"id":20457,"date":"2017-03-12T16:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2017-03-12T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:49:55","slug":"electrochemistry-cell-vs-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electrochemistry-cell-vs-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrochemistry:  cell vs battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring chemistry, the distinction between cell and battery is noted.<\/h1>\n<p>In electrochemistry, a <em>cell<\/em> is a single unit of electrical energy production.  A cell comprises an anode and cathode, plus the ingredients and the environment needed for the chemical reaction that outputs electrical energy.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>battery<\/em> comprises more than one cell connected so that they work together to deliver energy to a circuit.<\/p>\n<p>People have come to refer to single cells as batteries.  I&#8217;d say that the button-style power sources found in calculators, watches, etc are cells.  If a calculator contains two of them, those <em>two<\/em> cells constitute <em>a<\/em> battery.<\/p>\n<p>The typical car battery really is one, since it contains six cells connected.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, Charles E.  <u>Chemistry<\/u>, sixth ed.  Belmont:  Wadsworth, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Giancoli, Douglas C.  <u>Physics<\/u>, fifth ed.  New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring chemistry, the distinction between cell and battery is noted. In electrochemistry, a cell is a single unit of electrical energy production. A cell comprises an anode and cathode, plus the ingredients and the environment needed for the chemical reaction &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electrochemistry-cell-vs-battery\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electrochemistry:  cell vs battery<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,342,1023,384,7],"tags":[2165],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-electric-circuits","category-electricity","category-energy","category-physics","tag-cell-vs-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20470,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions\/20470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}