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By charge separation, I understood Bruce to mean that there is a
certain tiny amount of positive charge on the positive terminal of
the battery and the same amount of negative charge on the negative
terminal. This charge creates the electric field that is
characterized by the constant electric potential difference between
the terminals. To maintain that constant electric potential
difference, the battery has to maintain that charge distribution. The
total amount of charge that has flowed through the battery to date
does not seem to be relevant to the question of charge separation.
But - that ‘tiny amount of charge’ varies widely depending upon the
geometry of the terminal itself rather than the ‘voltage’ of the
battery. A lower voltage battery may well show a greater amount
charge separation than might a higher voltage battery with a
different terminal geometry. (If I’m following this correctly)