Thinking someone ripped off this guy's video and posted it.
-- my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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jeffmeden
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.
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Link goes to a video with only 300 views.... but in the right column there's an identical video with 100,000+
Thinking someone ripped off this guy's video and posted it.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.