[d1ropb1q]

Hi,

I am interested in designing a molten NaCl  cell (battery) , as what I saw was astonishing when some technician in was fixing a photo copying machine and the thermal battery of the machine stopped working while he trying to boost it, he asked me for some table salt and  to melt it , then he dipped  the wires in a glass of the melt n  get some energy for lil secs , he was a great chemist to me
what materials i need to design molten NaCl cell  , I tryed to do the same thing like him but didn't work.

[mjc123]

This sounds very strange. NaCl melts at 800°C. How did you melt it and keep it liquid? Or do you mean you dissolved it in water? In either case, it wouldn't make a battery; there are no spontaneous reactions to generate electrical energy. To electrolyse NaCl (liquid or solution) requires putting energy in. It sounds like the guy wanted a conduction pathway between the wires. Maybe he was just cleaning the wires - perhaps there was some insulating deposit on the wires that would come off if it was briefly electrolysed in salt water.

[d1ropb1q]

we have Muffle furnace so it can reach 800 degree C.we put a bunch of NaCl (almost 100 g) in quartz cup n melt them.
I am not sure if he was just cleaning the wires or something , but this is what he did and told us , as the thermal battery inside the machine wasn't working.
anyway I read a little bit about the molten salt battery , just wondering how it work and how to design one.

[Corribus]

So you had a guy come fix your copying machine and he was like, "Huh, battery's not working. You got any table salt you can heat up to 800 degrees for me so I can get this thing started again?"