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lead-acid

a. Describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles

Usage examples of "lead-acid".

In here were stored, or on charge a hundred and one different batteries, ranging from the heavy lead-acid batteries weighing over a hundred pounds to the tiny nickel-calmium cells for the emergency lighting.

All Schaffer could see was a cable-car, heavy winching machinery and heavy banks of lead-acid batteries: he was soon convinced that that was all that there was to see.

I moved forward, stubbed my toe heavily against something solid, looked down and saw a large lead-acid accumulator.

A big metal windmill whirled atop it, doing duty as a wind sock and charging banks of lead-acid batteries in the structure below, handmade copies of pre-Event models from trucks.

The 'tender pulled down bits of several things from containers on a shelf behind the bar: pieces of fluff, a dash of battery acid right from a six-cell lead-acid battery, a chunk of ball-peen hammer, a section ripped from the picture of a sunrise on a calendar pinned to the wall, two inches of rainbow, and a cherry.

The solution, which is the real secret, of course, is cheap and, like the solution in the ordinary lead-acid storage battery, lasts practically forever, with the occasional addition of water.