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Why is that? I’m not a battery expert but it would seem all that charging a battery does is move electrons in the cells around, no?
by w0utert 7y ago
Why is that? I’m not a battery expert but it would seem all that charging a battery does is move electrons in the cells around, no?
- chrisseaton 7y agoe=mc2 I think - there’s a Tesla forum thread about it, and Quora articles and things if you look. I’m not a physicist.
- rubatuga 7y agoThe mass depletion is less than a milligram...
- chrisseaton 7y agoYeah I read the same threads - that’s what I was referring to.
- im3w1l 7y agoChemical bonds have (often negative) mass. A chemical reaction will break and/or form bonds. Thus it slightly changes the mass. In a battery there will be chemical reactions happening at the anode and cathode. One reaction produces electrons and another absorbs them.
- ShorsHammer 7y agohttps://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-mass-of-a-battery-change-when-charged-discharged https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...