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by mrguyorama 2926 days ago
>punctured through the plastic housing (called a clamshell) and into some battery cells

Emphasis mine. I interpreted that as also popping some of the individual cells. If you replaced the individual cells that were breached you could probably be okay, but at the same time, look at how minor the defect was that was causing Samsung phones to catch fire

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Cellphone batteries are soft plastic pouches.