Lead and Sulphuric acid

Their prices have moved together.

Lead (commodity) and Sulphuric acid (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: battery electrolyte

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Lead-acid batteries use dilute sulphuric acid as electrolyte, and lead smelters capture acid as a by-product. Neither use is big enough to tie the prices: monthly correlation is 0.06, and yearly changes even run slightly negative (-0.12).

• 0.06 monthly change correlation
• -0.12 12-month change correlation
• -0.03 fitted elasticity

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