When Your Amazon Purchase Explodes

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Shoddily made lithium-ion batteries can cause serious injury and even death. How do they keep ending up in consumers’ hands?
Nicholas Jones didn’t think twice about purchasing a lithium-ion battery from Amazon in 2016. Like most Americans, he was used to ordering whatever he needed on the site and having it show up at his front door days later. So when his laptop’s battery stopped working, Jones, then a graduate student, went online, found a replacement HP battery for about $15, and bought it.

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