# Lead and Sulphuric acid

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/lead-and-sulphuric-acid/

[Lead](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/lead/) (commodity) and [Sulphuric acid](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/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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