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Nickel-based batteries: Overview

The rugged old chemistries still guarding trains, planes and hybrids

What this tile covers Nickel-cadmium, nickel-metal hydride and nickel-iron cells.

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Included from the reference tables

  • Nickel-cadmium
  • Nickel-metal hydride
  • Nickel-iron

Linked to the material world

Ni NickelCd Cadmium

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