Self discharge
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The loss of otherwise usable chemical energy by spontaneous currents within an electro-chemical cell, regardless of any external connection.
Note: For a battery in which this loss is very small, the term low-loss battery is used.
Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)
