Today, when I was checking a terrarium for more baby Centruroides flavopictus 2nd instar scorpions to be moved to a container of their own, I suddenly heard a very loud plop, loud enough to hurt my ear. Esme and her mother were down in the livingroom and heard it as well. At first I had no idea where the sound had come from. Esme and her mother told me that it was coming from where I was standing.
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Oddly enough, I came to your website after doing a search of "exploding Duracell batteries" for my brother. He installed a Duracell battery into his universal remote and one of his AAA batteries exploded for no apparent reason. I found a few other similar stories (one is in the UK version of PC World in Aug. 2007), so I immediately went to my battery stock to make sure I didn't have any Duracells on hand.
i had one in my pocket with some loose change (idiot) and i pulled it out and it was extremely hot, and exploded in my hand. Scared the crap out of me.
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Five nights ago i heard a loud POP sound in my kitchen, and i wondered what made it...
Six days later I found a Nine Volt Duracell Battery I had on my computer desk for a couple of months (not connected to anything) blew the bottom end off.. one out of six small battery's blew out and found one another half out of the case..never found the missing battery yet, I am sure I will find it sometime...I wonder if anyone had the same problem....
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I've just had exactly the same experience. A Duracell 9V battery - this one inside a smoke detector. A very loud pop, that I knew was close but couldn't find out where it had come from. Thought initially it must be my laptop battery or something else electric - but no luck there. Then the smoke detector started beeping - running on 5 of 6 cells I guess is equivalent to being out of juice and it gave itself away. The battery was nearing the end of its life anyway - the other smoke detector with a battery of the same age started beeping the same day. Does anyone know if this is a common occurrence? First I've heard of it.
December 2007 A loud shot, thought it was gun fire. Duracell AA alkaline batteries in a small toy shot out of the toy and across the room. No moisture, no heat, no direct sunlight or any other cause known. Are these dangerous?
A couple nights ago I was upstairs in my condo and I heard a very loud POP downstairs in my living room. I ran downstairs and worried that something happened to my furnace. When I got downstairs I saw a round flat silver object on my living room laminate flooring. I could not figure out what it was or why that was on my floor or where the noise came from. Then the next morning I was looking at the silver round object again and it occurred to me that it was the end of a battery. Sure enough... on my bookcase I had 2 AA Duracell batteries sitting there and one of them blew. I don't understand why it happened and what would cause such force and loud pop from such a small battery. Strange.
I was sitting here working on my laptop with a wireless mouse. I heard a loud pop in the mouse and took the batteries out. they would crackle and pop at random. This is weird.
Replaced the 9V battery in one of my smoke detector 2 weeks ago, this morning it popped making all the detectors go off in my house.I removed the 9V which was hot and making a sizzling sound, I placed it in the garbage and it popped one more time!
A 9 volt Duracell battery sitting on my desk for the past 2 months exploded this morning with a very loud bang..maybe they self destruct as this one had a Mar 2008 date....and this is Mar 1st. This one did have power in it as I used it in Dec. I sent Duracell a note...I wonder what they will say about it.
I was using one of those vibrating razors from gillette this morning in the shower and the battery exploded. Duracell AAA. what gives?
I heard several loud pops last night, then the fire alarm started the low battery beeping sound. When we took the battery out of the alarm, it popped again and the top of the battery was separated from the body of the battery. I double checked this morning and it was a Duracell 9 Volt.
i just had an energizer battery in my mouse that popped. scared the shit out of me . . . it is now starting to hiss at me . . . crazy stuff . . . never knew something like this could happen
Most of the comments are pretty recent. I just had a Duracell AAA battery explode 10 minutes ago __in my noise canceling headset while I had it on!__. I had the headset for a while and it never gave me any problems, and I had these batteries in it for roughly 2 weeks now.
My left ear (where the battery compartment for the headset is) feels a bit weird (the pop was *very* loud). I might have to go to a doctor and have it checked.
Bloody hell. I started hearing "pop-pop" sounds from my amplifier, thought the speaker broke or something, so I turn it on, it works fine. I turn it of, another "pop". I take the battery out, it pops, I see the end piece is falling off. Mom comes in, takes it in her hand, it pops. We put it on the table to try and figure out what the hell is going, it blasts the plastic and one of the cells out like a bullet.
Does anybody know why is this happening?
I threw a Duracell 9 volt in my pocket and walked one flight of stairs to replace a chirping smoke alarm. It popped in my pocket, and after figuring out where the sound came from I pulled it out of my pocket and was inspecting it when it popped again in my hand. Scared the crap out of me. It was then I noticed the explicit warning on the side of the battery to not carry the battery in your pocket.
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I did not hear the one on my desk but it also blew but this one was not in a circuit. It had the black plastic cover in place.
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