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The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
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English- This is what the inside of a lithium-ion battery looks like. It's not exactly high tech, just two meters of foil
coated in black paste, all packed into this tiny 45 gram cylinder. But these are some of the best batteries we have.
They power everything from laptops and electric vehicles to orbiting satellites.
Yet when a battery fails, all that energy can get released in the wrong way.
- Oh my God. - [Reporter] The latest incident involving a lithium-ion battery. - So how did something so rudimentary looking
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