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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Al battery
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Date: 31 May 90 18:23:40 GMT
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In article <2933@ariel.unm.edu>, ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
> 
> One thing's for certain: it's an odd (and undescribed) alloy of aluminum that
> serves as the cathode ...

> I hypothesize ... that the alloy is needed to prevent aluminum from forming
> its (in)famous oxide film.

Out of an article in New Scientist a couple of years back, the alloy includes
something like gallium, used to supress the formation of hydrogen.  

markz@ssc.uucp