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left-struck 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compa...

I don’t know anything about sodium based batteries but sodium itself is a serious fire danger. Sodium is explosive in water, more so than lithium I believe.

Filligree 3 months ago [–]

Pure sodium, yes. Sodium mixtures, usually not; table salt is fairly inert.

So it depends entirely on the chemistry.

left-struck 3 months ago | [–]

That’s true for basically any element including lithium

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