From: Alan King (Alan_at_nc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 23:04:35 EST
> My previous employer made the paper recently when they had a lithium
> explosion in the power supply research lab. The engineer ended up in the
> hospital with heat and chemical burns. Lithium is nothing to mess around
> with. Even with professionals doing the work, there can be catastrophic
> results.
'Research lab' is kind of an indicator that they might even have raw
lithium around, which is far more dangerous than any battery lithium
compounds. Even if it was a battery of some sort, it's unlikely to have
happened at any energy relating to what we're talking about. A little
bit of heat is not in the same realm as what they were likely doing to
whatever blew up.
Regardless of all the disclaimers and similar, they pretty much have
to be safe to a pretty reasonable heat. They wouldn't be on the market
if they were likely to blow up at the 120 deg or so routinely found in a
hot car and similar..
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