Talk:Recharging alkaline batteries

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[edit] Safety

I changed the section "Explosions" to "safety", because eye injury is a major concern when experimenting with a battery that can potentially spray 10-40% concentrated potassium hydroxide solution. We cannot control what other people will do with this information, but at at the very least we should warn them about the need to take safety precautions. (75.153.112.1 23:16, 9 September 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Explanation of failures

Perhaps the article could be expanded, to explain why recharging alkaline batteries is not very successful. Two modes of failure come to mind. One is the formation of dendrites in the zinc electrode that short the battery out. The other is the formation of hydrogen and/or oxygen, which cause the battery to vent.

[edit] Duplicated Articles

Rechargeable_alkaline_battery also has most of the same information covered.