03:01Technology expert Amer Tabish said that the exploding pagers in Lebanon appeared to suggest 'high-explosive materials embedded in the…batteries', speaking in Beirut on Thursday.
He also discussed how such an explosion could have been triggered.
“There is a certain high-explosive material embedded inside the batteries," he speculated. "A message arrives at the device, the message may also be technically embedded, meaning, the pager operating system interprets this message as a test for the device and checks the battery, in this process the energy is quickly drawn from the battery, overheating the battery mold made of lithium and thus acting as the spark or detonator that detonated the high explosive material."
He added that a simple battery explosion itself would not 'explode' in the same way.
"If it got overheated, it pops and doesn’t explode, and there is a difference between the two. When it pops, it releases gas and a blue spark and cannot be extinguished until it burns completely. This is the best that can happen,” he said.
The blasts across Lebanon on Tuesday killed 12 and injured nearly 3,000, according the country's health ministry, while subsequent explosions of handheld radios the following day resulted in 20 fatalities and 450 injuries.
The Hezbollah militant group, which confirmed that the pagers belonged to "employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions", attributed the explosions to Israel, while the country has not commented.
'High-explosive materials embedded in the batteries' - Lebanon tech expert on electronic device blasts
Technology expert Amer Tabish said that the exploding pagers in Lebanon appeared to suggest 'high-explosive materials embedded in the…batteries', speaking in Beirut on Thursday.
He also discussed how such an explosion could have been triggered.
“There is a certain high-explosive material embedded inside the batteries," he speculated. "A message arrives at the device, the message may also be technically embedded, meaning, the pager operating system interprets this message as a test for the device and checks the battery, in this process the energy is quickly drawn from the battery, overheating the battery mold made of lithium and thus acting as the spark or detonator that detonated the high explosive material."
He added that a simple battery explosion itself would not 'explode' in the same way.
"If it got overheated, it pops and doesn’t explode, and there is a difference between the two. When it pops, it releases gas and a blue spark and cannot be extinguished until it burns completely. This is the best that can happen,” he said.
The blasts across Lebanon on Tuesday killed 12 and injured nearly 3,000, according the country's health ministry, while subsequent explosions of handheld radios the following day resulted in 20 fatalities and 450 injuries.
The Hezbollah militant group, which confirmed that the pagers belonged to "employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions", attributed the explosions to Israel, while the country has not commented.
Technology expert Amer Tabish said that the exploding pagers in Lebanon appeared to suggest 'high-explosive materials embedded in the…batteries', speaking in Beirut on Thursday.
He also discussed how such an explosion could have been triggered.
“There is a certain high-explosive material embedded inside the batteries," he speculated. "A message arrives at the device, the message may also be technically embedded, meaning, the pager operating system interprets this message as a test for the device and checks the battery, in this process the energy is quickly drawn from the battery, overheating the battery mold made of lithium and thus acting as the spark or detonator that detonated the high explosive material."
He added that a simple battery explosion itself would not 'explode' in the same way.
"If it got overheated, it pops and doesn’t explode, and there is a difference between the two. When it pops, it releases gas and a blue spark and cannot be extinguished until it burns completely. This is the best that can happen,” he said.
The blasts across Lebanon on Tuesday killed 12 and injured nearly 3,000, according the country's health ministry, while subsequent explosions of handheld radios the following day resulted in 20 fatalities and 450 injuries.
The Hezbollah militant group, which confirmed that the pagers belonged to "employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions", attributed the explosions to Israel, while the country has not commented.