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Brooke Schumm
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President, Eagle-Cliffs, Inc. (consultants), Bay Village, Ohio. Senior Technology Associate, Eveready Battery Company, Westlake, Ohio, 1962–89. Editor of Handbook of Manganese Dioxides.

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Cross-section diagram of an alkaline-manganese dioxide battery showing labeled internal components, including the steel-plated covers, cathode, anode gel, current collector, separator, steel can, and brass rivet.
Battery, in electricity and electrochemistry, any of a class of devices that convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy. Although the term battery, in strict usage, designates an assembly of two or more galvanic cells capable of such energy conversion, it is commonly applied to a…
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