exploding lithium ion battery

old phone battery set on top of a burning trioxane fuel bar. I cut out the 5 minutes of the battery sitting there expanding since thats kinda boring to watch.

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• explode
• lithium
• ion
• lithium-ion
• battery
• phone
• ipod
• bomb
• old
• burn
• burning
• fire
• trioxane
• fuel

[agentofobservation]

I guess its safe to burn a lithium ion battery?

[mrfajita]

@agentofobservation Not at all, stay away if you do it because they contain toxic chemicals and explode

[agentofobservation]

@mrfajita I know but Im compelled to do it. I want to destroy one via burning, I know it will explode I just dont know how badly it will explode. Will it be a grenade like explosion or the kind of explosion you would get if you burn any other battery? In other words would I take out my entire backyard if I burned it? Also how long should I wait to go near it til its safe to breathe the air around it. I know its not good to breathe those chemcials that are released into the air.

[mrfajita]

@agentofobservation It will be pretty much like the video. I have blown up a bunch and its nothing big, a laptop battery would be a bigger boom but nothing too huge.

[chipmunkkiller]

if u extract the lithium out of an AA batery bunch it into a tight ball and put it in a bottle with a sealed lid then it goes boom

[agentofobservation]

@mrfajita oh ok. Also the smoke that it will produce will obviously be poisonous and I heard it can even cause blindness. I will throw it into the fire and run like hell and get inside my house. How long do I have to wait until I can get near it until it's safe to breathe the air?