 Quote by RedX
Also, if you connect a voltmeter to one end of the battery, and the other end of the voltmeter to the ground, then charge should flow from the battery to the ground and a voltage should be recorded in the voltmeter. But this would imply that a 12 V battery should register 6V when connecting just one terminal to the ground, which doesn't seem correct.
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It isn't. As mentioned in that post, the effective charge is miniscule, less than 10
-11 Coulombs, and so will be the voltage.