Re:Federal safety agency launches probe of Tesla battery fires
by bananabreakfast on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:53PM
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A lithium battery is made of lithium compounds not raw lithium. Expecting it to react the same way as pure lithium is a profound misunderstanding of basic chemistry.
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Re:Federal safety agency launches probe of Tesla battery fires
by matt-attack on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:28AM
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Kind of like when people commonly refer to table salt as “sodium”. Sodium is a highly caustic and reactive metal. The metal sodium is profoundly different than the salt called sodium chloride. Sharing a specific type of element means nothing when comparing compounds.