• @deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    It’s the difference in electronegativity that makes the battery. That’s why you see lithium and oxygen a lot; lithium doesn’t want electrons, oxygen does want them. Sodium and potassium are very close in electronegativity so the salty banana battery wouldn’t be good.

    I’m waiting for the cesium / fluorine battery, should theoretically be awesome. Or extremely explosive

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        32 days ago

        Gotta put my chemistry education to good use somehow, certainly not using it in the IT career I ended up getting in.

    • -I’m waiting for the cesium / fluorine battery, should theoretically be awesome. Or extremely explosive

      I wonder how much it would cost to personally attempt this experiment… (starts hunting for renters insurance)