You believe currently manufactured Duracell AA and AAA cells now no longer leak? Does anyone have any evidence to support that? What is the current experience? I'd like to believe that...
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Larry McDavid W6FUB
Anaheim, California (SE of Los Angeles, near Disneyland)
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On 9/5/2024 7:57 AM, Robert G8RPI via groups.io wrote:
The Alkaline cell leakage problem in premtium brands like Duracell and Energiser is not entirely down to cost cutting by the manufacturers. The root cause was the mandated (rightly) elimination of Mercury by governments. It turned out that the small amount of Hg alloed the re-absorbsion of hydrogen generated by the cell even when not suppling current. This lead to a period of production of cells the were prone to leakage. They now seem to have fixed the chemistry and more recent cells don't suffer this problem.
Robert.
