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      "definition": "RTCA’s environmental test procedures for airborne equipment — temperature, altitude, humidity, vibration, shock, power input, lightning, electromagnetic emissions and susceptibility, flammability and more — published in Europe as EUROCAE ED-14. Aircraft batteries and their electronics, like any airborne equipment, are qualified against the test categories it defines.",
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        "lede": "The regulations and standards a vehicle battery must meet to be approved, and the rules for shipping batteries by road, sea and air.",
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        "example": "Shipping tests and vehicle battery approval tests address different uses; passing one does not automatically satisfy another.",
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        "definition": "RTCA’s minimum operational performance standard for rechargeable lithium batteries and battery systems on aircraft, released in 2017. It sets design requirements and tests, including a thermal-runaway containment test, and is the performance standard behind the FAA’s technical standard order TSO-C179b for such batteries.",
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        "definition": "Shaking a cell or pack on a vibration table to a profile standing for years of road use, and striking it with defined mechanical shocks, then checking for loose connections, leaks and loss of isolation. UN 38.3, R100 and ISO 12405 each specify a profile.",
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        "definition": "The ISO series defining environmental conditions and tests for electrical and electronic equipment in road vehicles: part 2 electrical loads, part 3 mechanical, part 4 climatic and part 5 chemical. It is the usual basis for qualifying vehicle control units, battery electronics included; high-voltage traction packs are pointed instead to the parallel series ISO 19453, part 6.",
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        "definition": "The property that makes lithium-ion fires hard to fight: the carbonate solvents have flash points near room temperature, and the positive electrode releases its own oxygen when hot, so the fire does not need air. Solid and non-flammable electrolytes aim to remove this.",
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