<p>Provided is an alkali dry cell showing excellent discharge properties under both high loads and intermediate loads. The alkali dry cell has a positive pole (2) containing manganese dioxide and graphite. The positive pole further contains polyacrylic acid and/or a polyacrylic acid salt. When the pore distribution of the positive pole is determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, the integrated pore volume of pores having a diameter between 0.97 µm and 10.2 µm is between 0.0035 mL/g and 0.0090 mL/g.</p>
