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Nickel-Cadmium Battery

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A nickel-cadmium battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as its electrodes. The abbreviation Ni-Cd comes from the chemical symbols of nickel and cadmium; the related term NiCad is a registered trademark of the SAFT Corporation, though the brand name is commonly used informally to describe nickel-cadmium batteries generally.

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Classification
Maturity
TRL 9: Actual System Proven in Operational Environment 1
Technology Type
Electrochemical battery 1
Invented Year
1899 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Nickel-cadmium battery
  • Nickel-cadmium battery, History section, opening sentence
    Wet-cell nickel-cadmium batteries were invented in 1899.
  • Technology maturity, entity description (description property itself uncited on this atlas; cited against the entity's own live or freshly minted Wikipedia source instead)
    The abbreviation Ni-Cd comes from the chemical symbols of nickel and cadmium; the related term NiCad is a registered trademark of the SAFT Corporation, though the brand name is commonly used informally to describe nickel-cadmium batteries generally.
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