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[Peter Svensson]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, steve szmidt wrote:

> Our battery manufacturers did the same to stop people from recharging them. 
> They came out with this fantastic story of how batteries might explode if 
> charged. Most everyone believed it too.

It is quite true for some classes of batteries. E.g. some Li-ion batteries
will explode if charged (or in the case of rechargeable batteries charged
with the wrong voltage / polarity). They pack quite a punch as well. The 
normal household alkaline batteries are safe as far as I know though.

Peter