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Originally Posted by ted_ntsx
It is rather surprising what CAN catch fire. Most unusual but...
I saw a simple TV remote handset catch fire. Powered by just a normal PP3 battery, it actually produced flames!
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I could understand this in a mobile telephone (hence the reason they are not to be used on a filling-station forecourt, lest they are dropped and the battery shorts), and I'm wary of leaving my laptop on near the furniture because of the large battery capacity and the fault-energy available within.
I've had a couple of 'U2' cells get extremely hot in a faulty flashlight, and then there's the old trick of touching a PP3 onto a brillo pad...