Only certain batteries can do that.
One kind are manufactured without a polarity
And charged by the distribution company that packages it.
This is when they do, they label it on their wrapper.
These cells often have no physical distinction of which end is which.
another is a carbon/zinc battery
The casing is made of zinc, carbon rod inside,
And a zinc-chloride electrolyte that deposits its zinc back onto the casing
Instead of on the carbon rod.
I think they usually say not to recharge them.
Which, while you Can, will often cause leaks and crust up your battery holder
They also don’t shelf long while charged. They make themselves leak
And the charge will form tiny zinc-bridges in the chloride solution
Shorting then from the inside over time. So you often buy these and they don’t work.
can you charge these positronically?
Yes, and from an electrical perspective with our one-sided meters,
It would show a potential + on the - end of the battery.
Science would try to label that as some kind of “hole” electrons like to jump into.
I can those Positrons.
They are mathematically the same.
A battery has a potential because of a particular electrochemical condition.
Generally a chemical reaction takes place, and destroys one of the electrodes.
But some actually store the potential in the electrolyte itself.
At which point the electrodes define the polarity.
We have a chart of which ones are + and which ones are -
And for the most part the metals follow certain rules, and we know what to expect.
But in the case of anode/cathode neutrality, or when we exceed electrical constants for the
materials involved, + and - are simply a condition of the electrodes.
If you completely drain it (left shorted for a long time)
the battery has to follow the laws of material physics,
it’s whatever polarity we make it be.
Volta actually talked about it way before we were all born.
He’s The Godfather of battery’s. The guys house looked like an Everready factory.
Well, maybe more like a mad scientist lab, he had batteries made of every
chemical you could get your hands on in the 1800s
but he gets 1 line of mention in history, kind of like that other guy,
That invented almost everything we use today.
Anyways Volta discovered that
Certain acid solutions, if connected in reverse to other piles (batteries)
periodically, would repair the anode
Not only making the pile usable again, but he noted the potential from the opposite direction
When a 270-pile was left on it overnight. (his normal ones were 1/10th the size)
He actually invented the first rechargeable batteries, (and flipped them?)
but like most of our old knowledge is so
buried under the nonsense we think we know, that we forget. And someone else invents it again
and takes credit for it.
Like this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_PlantéVolta also discovered Methane, and invented the internal combustion engine.
(and electrical ignition)
And the capacitor