FYI, there is an 5 page article on a 2021 laboratory fire in Nature Chemistry that was published yesterday. The fire was in Vienna and appears to have been ignited by a neglected Lithium battery in a long unused laptop. The laptop was associated with a legacy piece of analytical equipment in the lab.

Unfortunately, the article is behind a paywall, so I can’t read beyond the first page, but I have an Interlibrary Loan request in to retrieve the complete article. I suspect that there is more useful information in the “insights” portion of the article. It can be found at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01254-6

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
ralph**At_Symbol_Here**rstuartcih.org

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