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> By Mike Hughlett
> Tribune staff reporter
> July 13, 2006
> It has the ring of an urban legend: A cell phone blows up and sets > fire to a house.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: For those people inclined to think that
> a fire caused by an exploding battery is 'just another urban legend'
> which never has any verifiable source to it, here is an instance where
> proof is available: Chicago Tribune, July 13, 2006 Section B, with a
> real person named. PAT]
There was a recent incident where a Dell laptop went up in flames at a conference in Asia.
It's amazing how hot a 9 volt transistor battery gets when it contacts the loose change in your pocket.
Energy = Energy
Uncontrolled Energy = Bomb