I know that in a normal battery once the electrons have made their way from the anode to the cathode the battery dies, but rechargeable batteries are able to sort of reset the battery once it’s been put on charge.
Every time I watch a YouTube video on rechargeable batteries all they say is “We do this by forcing the electrons back to the anode” without explaining exactly how that works and its driving me up the goddamn wall.
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Like you’re five: the battery is full of acid. The acid pulls electrons from the negative side and puts them on the positive side. This outputs a Voltage. To charge it, we do the reverse. We input a Higher voltage to the battery which forces the electrons to go from the positive side to the negative side.
Bonus: you technically can recharge dead alkaline batteries. But they weren’t designed for that so they have problems with leaking and degradation
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