The phrase "a dry cell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of electrochemical cell that is sealed and does not contain liquid electrolytes, commonly used in batteries.
Example: "The flashlight requires a dry cell battery to function properly."
Alternatives: "a non-spillable battery" or "a sealed battery".
On completion, inmates are placed in a "dry cell" without running water and watched for up to 60 minutes, for any "indications of vomiting or attempts to induce vomiting".
The black was found by chemical analysis to be the residue of the paste inside a dry cell, and the white to be ashes resulting from the combustion of dynamite.
The guidelines, which were updated after the latest protest by inmates began in February, detail the process of involuntary feeding and how after the sessions, detainees are kept in a "dry cell" to prevent them vomiting.
A dry cell is a chemical battery in which no free liquid is present, the electrolyte being soaked up by some absorbent material such as cardboard.
If paired with an anode such as zinc, long cell life at low cost per watt-hour (for a dry cell) can be obtained because a given battery's volume may be devoted more completely to anode and electrolyte material.
The document makes for gruesome reading: the detainee shackled to a special chair (which looks like the electric chair); the head restraints if he resists; the tube pushed painfully down his nose; the half-hour or so of ingestion of nutritional supplements; the transfer of the detainee to a "dry cell," where, if he vomits, he is strapped back into the chair until the food is digested.
The contrivance consists of a dry-cell battery with an induction coil that steps up the voltage to a high level.
Left thus to their own devices, Guay and Ruest decided to rig up a time bomb, consisting principally of an alarm clock, a dry-cell battery, a detonator, and a detonating cap.
Hoping to find some indication of the presence of an alarm clock or a dry-cell battery, he went to the scene of the crash and crawled over it on his hands and knees.
There was a curious circular dent in the plate, which looked as if it had been caused by being struck by the metal top of a dry-cell battery, and it was splotched with bits of black and white stuff.
Gravel shrugged his shoulders, made the device, and in court, on October 14th, with the Dean of Sciences at Laval present and crying out, "Don't miss your shot, Dr. Gravel!," the reluctant professor lighted a fuse with an alarm clock and a dry-cell battery.
