Lethal AA Batteries!!
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I set fire to my school shirt when I was about 14.
I had two batteries for my walkman (yes I am old!) in the pocket with two coins and they made a circuit and burnt a big hole in my shirt before I noticed.
Did almost exactly the same..
Found some batteries on the Friday morning.. peeled off the outer plastic advertising.. threw them at a wall.. put them back in my top pocket.
Cue English at mid-day and I've got a strange sensation on my left nipple, which I quickly evaluate to burning hot death. I reach into my pocket, only to discover that I cannot hold the batteries for long enough to pull them out. The only option is to A) pull my shirt away from my nipple and B) stand up, bend over fully so that mavity does the work for me and I am free of these deadly molten batteries.
Fortunately, the class had just been given their task and I went fairly un-noticed. I left the batteries underneath me until the end of the lesson, where I tried my luck at moving them again. Still a no go, I kicked them to the side of the room. I spent the weekend worrying that I might go back to find the school burnt down and it being traced back to my batteries.
It didnt, and I came up with some dodgy excuse about the now hole/discolouring on my shirt pocket for mum, while I told dad what happened.
Lesson learnt.
Lithium batteries are so much better though, more than double the capacity of ni-mh rechargeable 9v batteries.
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Synthesising LSD in a school chemistry lab would be quite an achievement
if it aint on youtube it didnt happen!
I set fire to my school shirt when I was about 14.
I had two batteries for my walkman (yes I am old!
*must stop picturing you stripping off a flaming school uniform* >.<
its aslo the constant ampage they can supply, my 11.1v lipo pack can supply a constan 30amps and burst at 35amps. not bad for such a small battery.
i had some AA batteries leak onto my desk one time, being the curious person i am (and not knowing the batteries had leaked) and having seen a pool of translucent liquid on my desk i decided the best way to find out what it was was to taste it...never again!
burnt like a ******, Darwin award here i come
yay i have a great idea, lets try tasting battery acid
Tap water hot - but not what batteries should be!
lol, I was in a rush to write it - leave me alone grammer boy
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me too, although we were playing with fuming sulphuric acid :S
that was not fun, and neither was adding water to it
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Why did you remove the plasticy outer bit?
o/\o
His brother did.
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My SKY remote is missing the batteries and the back is missing exposing the batteries.
Held the remote to change the channel, and I got a massive burn from it.
Turns out to be the batteries - they were boiling hot!
How is that even possible? How could you get a burn from the batteries if they're missing?
Synthesising LSD in a school chemistry lab would be quite an achievement
I know its time for me to sleep when something as simple as that makes my mind think of strange things. When i read that i thought of some person in a school science lab working with some chemicals, and suddenly a big sign pops up out of thin air saying 'Achievment unlocked!'.
I think i should cut back on the late night TF2 gaming sessions.
Anyway back on topic, i thought batteries are ment to leak if they get too hot so that not only it stops it getting hotter, but it reduces the pressure so there is no explosion.
By removing the plastic, the batteries short circuited across the +ve and -ve (exposed casing), causing the battery to heat up from the chemical reaction inside and the current running through the short circuit.
High School.
Science Class. (don't know why bad things always happened to me in science)
Batteries in pocket.
Keys and assorted change in pocket.
Burning a hole in my new jeans, dancing like a complete moron in some pathetic attempt to get them out, and in the process back handing the most attractive girl in college.
Whenever we talk, that always crops up.
Science Class. (don't know why bad things always happened to me in science)
Batteries in pocket.
Keys and assorted change in pocket.
Burning a hole in my new jeans, dancing like a complete moron in some pathetic attempt to get them out, and in the process back handing the most attractive girl in college.
Whenever we talk, that always crops up.