We all have heard how Li batteries can catch fire or explode-especially the cheaper batts and cheap chargers.
And the fires caused can cost lives.
Even perhaps more dangerous are the flat button cells found everywhere- Children can easily swallow them and because the symptoms are so similar to other maladies, death can follow due to misdiagnosis.
These need to be stored with this in mind and disposed of in a proper manner and never left where children can find them.
I read in the news today that those about the size of a nickel are the worst- getting lodged in the child's digestive tract rather than being passed like the small one would hopefully
be. If not for an Xray at about five days after swallowing the Li cell, this child may have died. The digestive juices had already began to break down the battery and the child was quite sick- he fortunetly survived after removal of the batt.
hak