Plantén.
/ˈplɑːnteɪ/, /ˈplanteɪ/, U.S. /ˈplænteɪ/ attributive. Designating lead-acid accumulator plates formed by a process invented by Planté, cells containing such plates, and the process itself.
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1881 Electrician 3 Sept. 249/2 A Planté cell that has been long in use gives a better result than one that has been freshly constructed.
1889 G. W. de Tunzelmann Electr. in Mod. Life xiv. 195 The original Planté accumulator has been considerably improved by Faure and others.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 77/1 Planté negatives are not generally used, as their advantages are not compensated by the additional weight of lead... Planté positives are employed extensively in stationary batteries.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xiv. 239 In the original Planté process a current was passed between two sheets of lead in dilute H2SO4, its direction being frequently reversed.
1959 Times 11 Sept. 9/2 The field in which the new cell is designed to replace current Planté types is a very wide one.
1970 C. L. Mantell Batteries & Energy Syst. xiii. 112 Planté plates are prepared from lead blanks which have been cast, rolled, cut, and stamped.
1989 D. S. L. Cardwell James Joule (1990) xiii. 258 Much enthusiasm had been aroused by the arrival in Britain of Fauré's improved Planté battery, the first of the modern accumulators or storage batteries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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