Everyone reporting the galaxy note 7 exploding is accurate.
Most people think of the first definition in your dictionary example, which is "
a violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb."
It does not blow apart. It catches fire. As I said, I didn't like people claiming that iPhones were "exploding" due to third party chargers, either. It's just click bait dramatic headlines, which is all too common these days.
According to the chairman of the cpsc, the battery was too big. Guy might actually win the lawsuit,
Good info. That means either somebody failed to give the battery maker the correct size, or (more likely) the battery maker made it too big and somebody failed to notice it.
It'd be interesting to find out if the first samples were the correct thickness, and later ones were not. Still no excuse, since random lots should be constantly checked to see if they're in spec.
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Reminds me of that famous automotive anecdote of when Ford and Mazda first collaborated. Apparently the Ford built automatic transmissions were failing at a far larger rate than the Mazda built version of the exact same transmission. Both were supposedly built to the same tolerances. So Ford sent engineers to Mazda to figure out why those transmissions rarely failed.
As they checked each individual part coming down the factory assembly line, they found that every single Mazda part was exactly on spec. Not just within tolerance levels like parts in the Ford factory, but EXACTLY what was called for.
So even though the Ford parts were within tolerance levels, the cumulative effect of many parts being near the edge of tolerance, made the Ford transmissions fit less perfectly together than the exacting Mazda parts.
