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Voltage depression is caused by repeated over-charging of a battery, which causes the formation of small crystals of electrolyte on the plates.[citation needed] These can clog the plates, increasing resistance and lowering the voltage of some individual cells in the battery. This causes the battery as a whole to seem to discharge rapidly as those individual cells discharge quickly and the voltage of the battery as a whole suddenly falls.[citation needed] This effect is very common,[citation needed] as consumer trickle chargers typically overcharge. Nickel–metal hydride batteries, for example, are known to experience this form of capacity loss[citation needed] often mistakenly attributed to memory effect.[1]