Abstract: Our improved battery material, hydrated amorphous silica, is primarily intended to be employed in situations where an electric battery cell's environment is demanding. Hydrated amorphous silica in the form of black opal ore (rock form) is reduced to a powder, of any particle size. This hydrated amorphous silica is attached to a conductive grid or weaving. This finished hydrated amorphous silica, can be used as an anode, electrode or plate; it is then set, with or in an alkaline or acid base metal, or other appropriate material, forming an electric battery cell.