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Cork Airport 's new 'EV Incident Response Unit' comes equipped with a range of gear for tackling lithium-ion battery fires.

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In a study appearing in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, researchers used quantum-chemical molecular dynamics simulations ...

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