Electro wire-cutting

Electro-osmotic knife A method of cutting wet sediment that relies on the principal of electro-osmosis. Essentially, a knife is wired as a negative electrode so that it is continuously lubricated by the interstitial watermigrating towards it. 

After being cut to size and having wires or tabs hot-forged onto an appropriately coined (compressed) area to carry current to the cell terminals, the electrodes are either electro-formed (charged in tanks against inert counterelectrodes) before assembly into cells or assembled into the cells in the metallic state and later charged in the cell. 

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