PURPOSE: To provide a dry cell having good heavy load pulse discharge characteristics during light load discharging by suppressing increase in the internal resistance during light load discharging without bringing about drop of the heavy load discharge characteristics.

CONSTITUTION: A dry cell concerned includes zinc chloride as the main electrolyte, in which the weight of ammonium ions contained in electrolyte is no more than 2% of the weight of electrolyte with which the inside of the battery is filled, wherein ammonium chloride is included in glue 2b for a separator 2, which is arranged between a negative electrode zinc 1 and positive electrode black mix 4, in an amount 1-10g per 1m2 separator.