Now, even though the idea of a battery-powered vehicle was to revolutionize people's lives for the better, primary cell batteries (that's the " use once and toss" kind) weren't the way to go for obvious reasons.
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We also explored the difference between primary batteries, the use-it-and-replace-it kind, and secondary batteries, the rechargeable kind you find in phones and laptops.
To see how reduction potentials work in half reactions and combine in an overall reaction, let's consider a galvanic cell where zinc is oxidized and copper ions are reduced.
This is essentially the opposite of a galvanic cell, known as an electrolytic cell, and it performs electrolysis, which uses electricity, electro-, to do the breaking apart, -lysis.