A comparison of the energy stored by different cells on the basis of cell volume: The amount of energy available from a battery is governed by: 1) The type of cell chemistry used. 2) The amount of chemical material available in the cell.
Economic materialism. Materialism is the importance a person attaches to acquiring and consuming material goods. The use of the term materialistic to describe a person's personality or a society tends to have a negative or critical connotation.
They found that materialism as a whole was negatively related to satisfaction in all the aspects of life measured. The relationship was strongest for satisfaction with income or standard of living (r=-.39) and weakest for satisfaction with family life (r=-.17).