• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The same thing that makes lithium good for batteries also makes it good for burning for days at a time and reigniting randomly

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      7 months ago

      That’s kinda true, in a sense that all batteries use a chemical reaction to generate electricity and a damaged battery can short and thus ignite arbitrarily. But there’s lithium-based batteries like LiFePo₄ that burn significantly less intensely if at all; and there’s lab-only chemistries that are non-flammable. So it’s not really because of the lithium specifically that they burn so well.