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Old 19th March 2013 | 23:14
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Chu Chu
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The box doesn't contain enough oxygen to support combustion for long. So if the products of a thermal runaway ignited, they'd self extinguish pretty quickly without a source of additional oxygen. Of course, you'd still have the heat of the battery event to deal with, but not a significant amount more from combustion.
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