In today's video,
we are trying out 4 new methods to stress test batteries,
push them to their limits, and see what will happen to them.
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You may recall a previous video
where we took a bunch of batteries,
and we tested them,
damaging them in ways that you're really not supposed to.
We drove nails through them, we cut them in half, smash them,
and we just hit them with a blow torch.
That was really fun.
I like seeing what happened,
but we can take it a step further.
Here's the basic idea.
We've got a bunch of alkaline and lithium batteries.
We're going to see what happens if we deep fry them,
weld them, freeze them, and chop them with an ax.
We've got a bunch of our alkaline batteries.
We've got some of our lithium batteries,
and we've got four new tests,
four new ways to destroy batteries,
things that you are definitely not supposed to do,
and we're going to try it.
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Alright, so we've got our voltmeter here.
Before we put our batteries into the liquid nitrogen,
we are going to see what sort
of output reading we get from the batteries.
This Energizer Ultimate lithium battery is giving us
1.806 volts of DC,
and our Duracell alkaline battery is giving us 1.613 volts DC.
All right, starting with the Duracell.
Here it goes.
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That's only been in for a couple seconds,
but just to see
if there's any change, I'm just gonna give it another test.
This was 1.613, I think.
Now, it's given us 1.5, but it's climbing.
As the battery-- Okay.
1.553 is what we're getting now.
So that's down a little bit.
Let's throw it back in,
and let's just let it go until it--
Until it stops bubbling,
and then a couple more minutes after that to really get it cold.
Our Duracell alkaline battery has now been our liquid nitrogen
for about five minutes,
and the liquid nitrogen has mostly stop bubbling around it.
There's still some bubbles coming off,
it's just not as violent as it was before.
But I think we're ready to test it again.
So we are at 38 millivolts.
So that's like 0.03, I think.
That is very very little power.
This is how we find out just how good my hammer aim is.
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What have I done?
I think it split open.
It did.
Freeze your hand pretty quick.
Yeah, it's very cold.
But look at that!
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You can use a little more finesse,
and a little less power.
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That's awesome.
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That is, I'd say the entire contents
of an alkaline battery.
Now, if you remember from our last video,
all of this right here, this was paste.
This black stuff here.
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All right.
Let's test the voltage on this bad boy.
We are at an astonishing 301 mil--
It's bottoming out basically.
It's--
>> Oh, now it's up to 30 millivolts. >> Negative.
No, no.
There was a negative there for a second.
This is just jumping all over the place.
It can't handle this.
Oh, now we're up to 1.7 volts.
It like got its voltage back.
That was quick.
I don't think the alkaline battery did that.
Nope.
Not the same.
Probably because it has this paste
that was no longer paste, and not doing its thing.
All right.
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Hmm.
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Oh, I also broke one.
Oh, I can smell that though.
Yep.
Oh.
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Interesting.
So this one, I am curious about.
I kind of suspect as it warms up, it might just ignite,
because we've now probably made the layers
of the inside metal touch.
But I don't know how warm it will have to get
before it does that.
Okay, we've got our two batteries.
I'm a little nervous about what the lithium one's going to do,
because these do have a tendency to light on fire
if they get too hot.
I don't know if oil will get it there,
but it like might make it expand,
and then the metal inside could touch,
and then that could make it light.
Batteries into the deep fryer.
One alkaline.
One lithium.
If we conclude
that it's finished doing whatever it's going to do,
then we're just going to unplug the machine,
wait for a few minutes,
and then try and carefully come out,
and lift things off.
We'll see what we can do.
Oh, I think the wrapper
around the Duracell battery has come off.
I can't actually see the Energizer battery.
I really really thought it was gonna have a more
explosive reaction this.
Oh, wait, spoke too soon.
Looks like the alkaline battery just started sort
of spurting out the negative.
Yes.
Something pop.
I think the alkaline battery was doing something,
and then the Energizer lithium battery also did something
at the same time.
No, nope.
Here goes the alkaline.
The alkaline has now started freaking out.
Now, okay.
So instead of popping like the lithium did,
this one just fizzled out.
That lithium one, it just sort of popped,
and it launched itself up
out of the fryer, splashing oil all over our canvas tarp,
and then it landed a few feet away.
The alkaline one still seems to be bubbling rather furiously.
Fizzling, fizzling, popping.
I don't think we can use this fry oil for anything else.
So this is warm to the touch.
We're going to leave it alone for a minute here,
because you can see that it obviously expanded.
But I can't see
where that leak was that made it just freaked out,
and explode out of the deep fryer.
When we've heated up the lithium batteries before,
there's sort of a top cap attached to it,
and that has popped off.
This one, I mean the top cap is still there,
but it may have loosened.
So one leaked slowly for a long time,
and one leaked to very quickly for a short amount of time.
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Well, it really looks pretty.
Oh, it overheated.
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Probably a good burning acid smell.
So our battery here overheated very quickly,
started leaking.
We got spot.
It looks like it leaked at the side,
or maybe I managed to weld a little bit there.
We kind of lost our connection.
The battery of course
has to have a connection for it to actually weld anything.
The electricity has to flow through...
So I can weld on anything that this is connected to.
But our battery, while it did get somewhere at first...
I don't know.
I want to try that again,
but I'm gonna peel the coating off
so the whole battery is metal,
and I don't have the plastic getting in the way.
This one, I think has potential to be even more exciting.
Because that one kept moving so much.
I'm gonna try and get
this be held even more sturdily by our magnet.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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It's lit.
And it will probably light even more violently still.
Beautiful.
Very nice bright pink color.
Can you see the glow?
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
So this time,
I've scraped off some of the outside coating on the battery,
and I'm going to see what happens if I weld straight
into the side of it.
Whoa.
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All right.
I'm going to back up.
I want to be clear that I'm not backing up
because I'm worried about the battery.
I'm backing up
because Nate is a terrible shot when it comes to using an axe.
Hey.
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Well, you hit it.
I did.
Oh, that looks awesome.
It's actually a decent hit.
Yeah.
It wasn't a perfect hit, but it was a decent hit.
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Oh my god!
Yeah.
I take it back.
>> I take back everything I said. >> Severed!
Severed that battery.
It's a perfect hit.
All right.
Other than being chopped in half though,
it hasn't really done anything.
Let's see if the lithium ones are more exciting.
Just hit it.
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What?
You did it, first try.
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I kinda thought that would-- Oh, it's fizzing.
Okay.
Well, maybe don't be holding it.
Let it sit there
in case it fizzes into something more exciting.
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Wow.
You got it.
We only have one left.
Go for it.
I am probably not a good enough shot for this one.
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You smooshed it,
and I didn't actually chop it, it just smooshed it.
Hit the side.
It wasn't a bull's eye right on the side.
I was off by quarter of a millimeter this time,
and the blade just like smooshed it sideways.
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Battery Destruction Part 2, a success.
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