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An alkaline battery includes a positive electrode containing as a positive electrode active material manganese dioxide and nickel oxyhydroxide, and when the manganese dioxide is heated, a weight reduction percentage of the manganese dioxide at a temperature within a range of 100° C. or more and 400° C. or less is 3.8 wt % or more. When the manganese dioxide is subjected to X-ray powder diffraction measurement, a peak position of a diffraction plane with Miller indices of (110) is 20.5 degrees or more and 21.7 degrees or less and a ratio (I(130)/I(021)) of a peak intensity I (130) of a diffraction plane with miller indices (130) to a peak intensity I(021) of a diffraction plane with Muller indices of (021) is 0.1 or less.