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Lithium react with water, pouring water on it will lower the temperature, but you can't stop a lithium fire with water, you need to wait that your pile of lithi
by Kuinox 7y ago
Lithium react with water, pouring water on it will lower the temperature, but you can't stop a lithium fire with water, you need to wait that your pile of lithium burn.
- mlindner 7y agoIn battery fires the lithium is not burning, the electrolyte is. By dumping water on it you simply heat up the lithium causing the fire to continue. You don't want to use water on a battery fire. You want to use smothering agents that block off oxygen so that the liberated gas put off by the heated electrolyte doesn't ignite.