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u/dodo8338 Apr 09 '21
That scared me!
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u/PheterPharker Apr 09 '21
If they had watched any video online of a battery being punctured, they would have realized that this was not the brightest idea.
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u/dalego25 Apr 09 '21
She actually says “It doesn’t look like the battery exploded or anything” and then proceeded to do this... whyyyy?????
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u/someotherguyinNH Apr 09 '21
Why does it explode like that? Im fairly mechanically inclined and wouldn't expect that. I wouldn't to do it in the first place though.....
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u/tylerchu Apr 09 '21
This isn’t mechanics, it’s chemistry. The short story is that hydrogen gas forms and the heat of formation also ignited it.
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u/WhySpongebobWhy Apr 10 '21
Lithium Ion battery. The Lithium reacted to the oxygen in the air once the seal was punctured and had an exothermic reaction. A swift one.
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u/iHateMonkeysSObad Apr 09 '21
Christ, I just jumped at that ending so hard my knees smashed into the bottom of my desk.
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u/umamifiend Apr 09 '21
But seriously- WHYYY? is this just another stupid think kids are doing for videos? I just completely do not understand. But I melt metal safely all the time (casting) so I guess I am ahead of the curve?
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u/HorseL3gs97 Apr 09 '21
Read the title and thought "ooh don't they blow up?" - was not disappointed.
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u/Modified_Human Apr 09 '21
Why is she opening it like if it was a pack of pokemon cards
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u/blacksmithingbro May 29 '21
How likely is it she just burned her house down!?
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u/blacksmithingbro May 29 '21
Lol my wifes exact reaction. Nice to see your still active brother. Miss you in *******
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u/Nurum Apr 09 '21
"It doesn't look like the battery exploded"
Proceeds to cut into said battery. Does she not know what makes them explode?
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u/Ublind Apr 09 '21
Link please
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u/Ensvey Apr 09 '21
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u/FirstMiddleLass Apr 10 '21
Interesting, the few cell phone battery I've pierced went off like a few dozen sparklers.
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u/Quasic Apr 10 '21
I, for one, love this new trend of ending a video immediately after or during the action of a video. Who needs context? I want to slightly smirk and instantly start another video.
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u/mesopotamius Apr 09 '21
What do you mean "too early"? Is there a correct time to be puncturing a lithium-ion battery?
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u/OpsadaHeroj Apr 09 '21
The video cut out too early, they mean. But I would say around 12pm is the best time. All the firefighters are awake and ready, everyone else is chilling eating lunch so hopefully not much workload for those guys.
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u/Muffinbeans Apr 09 '21
Maybe 12:45pm so the firefighters can eat lunch too. Can’t save people from themselves on an empty stomach.
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u/Somethingclever24 Apr 10 '21
Damn. I miss the days when you could misread a comment, have said comment explained to you, and not get downvoted to hell.
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u/ivanoski-007 Apr 10 '21
that's what reposters do, edit the video so it looks like original content
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Apr 09 '21
Competent enough to remove the display assembly from a modern iphone but dumb enough to stab the battery with metal? This smells like stage to me.
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u/WhySpongebobWhy Apr 10 '21
If it was staged it would still be ridiculously stupid. No gloves, no mask, no proper ventilation, on a flammable surface. Lithium gas is RIDICULOUSLY harmful to inhale and she inhaled REAL deep when it exploded.
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u/Educational_Check340 Dec 21 '22
It's not the lithium "gas" that's harmful. It almost immediately turns into an oxide, and there's very little lithium to begin with. It's the electrolyte violently decomposing into HF, among other things. That is the dangerous part of burning batteries.
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u/slingshot91 Apr 09 '21
“It doesn’t look like battery actually exploded or anything....” Famous last words.
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u/_axeman_ Apr 09 '21
This reminds me of a story my brother told me. One of his co workers had to rush to the hospital from work because her kids and the neighbors kids got injured opening ammunition....with a hammer. Sigh.
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Apr 09 '21
Idiot. I had a rechargeable iPad keyboard expand on me while I was on a road trip. I didn’t take it apart to exam it let alone cut into the damn thing. I properly disposed of it as soon as I could before it had a chance to potentially combust in my car or hotel room.
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Apr 09 '21
We drive nails in our bad lipo's at the rc racing track you got a couple of seconds after penetration to GTFO of there
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u/CapN_Crummp Apr 10 '21
I was bracing myself. Slightly turning my head away and I still flinched lol
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u/humbled91 Apr 10 '21
I had to watch with one eye open and the phone at arm's length. The anxiety when she put the blade to it went through the roof. So stupid 😂
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u/Blaustein23 Apr 10 '21
Idk if I'm in the minority of people being that I've seen what thermal runaway on a LiPO battery looks like in person, but holy fuck it's terrifying and you want to do something about it, but energy gonna do what energy do
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u/oakum_ouroboros Apr 10 '21
Well that certainly carried me over the finish line in this morning's toileting event.
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u/AreaLeftBlank Apr 10 '21
If only the knife had slipped and nearly cut her finger off because she was cutting it like an idiot, she could probably breathe normally the rest of her life.
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u/Pepper_Grinder Apr 10 '21
I have that same knife, had it over 15 years. Don’t go anywhere (within the house) without it
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u/bloodguard Apr 10 '21
And now they're going to have to cram another warning label on the battery.
Right under:
Potential for fire or burning. Do not disassemble, puncture, crush heat or burn.
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No. For serious. This means you, dummy.
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u/Jay794 Apr 10 '21
How some people survive after doing stupid shit like this amazes me. Like this is natural selection at its best
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u/magnateur Apr 10 '21
Yeah, lithium batteries dont like oxygen. Also your lungs dont like breathing in the products of the fire.
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u/Er4din Apr 10 '21
Is there anyone knowledgeable enough to explain to me why does the battery explode upon its casing being pierced? I am genuinely interested
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u/VulgarDisplayofDerp Apr 18 '21
The gist of it is the cathode and anode (positive and negative) are separated by carefully designed layers which control the chemical reaction in the battery allowing it to be charged or discharged at a predictable rate.
When those layers are pierced, the chemical reactions happen at a runaway pace, generate heat, which hastens that pace even more and then eventually fire. If it's in a contained hard shell case, you also get a small explosion
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u/WaycoKid1129 Apr 10 '21
Not in a garage, or outside, no, this person decided to do this on their bed. So many questions right now lol
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u/kvaks Apr 10 '21
Serious question: What do people do with all their Li-ion batteries? I have a lot of them around the house: Phones, computers, vacuum cleaners, gardening tools, hardware tools, and probably a few more categories of devices. I don't really check their status all to often, except when I use them. Some I don't use for months at a time. Are all these batteries ticking timebombs and will burn my house down at some point?
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u/VulgarDisplayofDerp Apr 18 '21
If they aren't puffed they're most likely safe.
A discharged lithium battery is rarely fully discharged, so it should still be treated carefully. Don't pierce them don't put them in a trash compactor etc... But the amount of potential fire hazard in a fully charged battery is higher than one in a discharged state.
As to how to get rid of them, check with your local staples or OfficeMax, they often offer recycling for rechargeables
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u/Joonicks Apr 09 '21
Label is staring her right in the face: "Warning: Potential for fire or burning. Do not disassemble, puncture, crush, heat or burn."
I vote we change "Instagram generation" to "Darwin generation".
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u/WhySpongebobWhy Apr 10 '21
People have been idiots for millennia. This is simply the most VISIBLY stupid generation.
I'm always reminded about Will Smith commenting on his son Jaden Smith's tweets where he said that at least when he was stupid as a kid it wasn't out there for the world to see.
There was an entire generation of kids where long darts were a relatively common yard game and kids kept getting injured after throwing them straight up in the air.
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u/VulgarDisplayofDerp Apr 18 '21
While it has never happened to me more than a few guys in my RC group have had their soft side Lipo (lithium polymer) batteries burn up on them after getting damaged while bashing.
The general consensus is if You're routinely running your vehicles with rough treatment, you should always recharge them on a cinder block, brick, cement patio, in a metal bucket, etc.
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u/Othersideofthemirror Apr 09 '21
That gasp is her inhaling irreparable lung damage.