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This article in Physical Review Focus describes how most of the voltage from a lead-acid battery comes from relativistic effects in the lead atom. The article describes the simulation that produces this result, and how the simulation also explains why a tin-acid battery doesn't work.
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Title = {Relativity Powers Your Car Battery},
Publisher = {American Physical Society},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {22 March 2025},
Month = {January 14, 2011},
Year = {2011}
}
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