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From: ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: No Batteries in Freezer? (was: Re: AAAA batteries?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.161542.14899@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 16:15:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.012020.19382@ariel.unm.edu> <4730@guppie4.UUCP>
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In article <4730@guppie4.UUCP> svoboda@motcid.UUCP (David Svoboda) writes:
>From article <1991Jun10.012020.19382@ariel.unm.edu>, by
ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax):
 
>+ Rodeo Schlock has their battery card, which can keep you in smoke detector
>+ batteries at no additional charge for years to come. (Store `em in the fridge
>+ ...NOT the freezer!)

>	Why not?

Well, I'm told (I've never tried it) that colder freezers will freeze some
liquid components of some batteries.  Other batteries likely would be un-
affected.

That's what I've heard.  Does anyone _know_?


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