Why Do Some Batteries Last Longer When Stored in a Refrigerator

1 Why Do Some Batteries Last Longer When Stored in a Refrigerator  

Does it really help to store batteries in a refrigerator  

In 1887 the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius suggested that before a chemical reaction could occur, there must be some minimum kinetic energy possessed jointly by the molecules undergoing collision. If (two) molecules collide with less 

His relationship of the rate constant k with temperature T in Kelvin involved a constant A known as the pre-exponential factor and the activation energy a  

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