Rapaire -

Puncturing a Lithium battery with a pocket knife is definitely one of those "don't try this at home" things not to do. Heat, smoke, noxious vapors, and chemical burns are attendant risks.

At least one of the several "Anarchist Cookbooks" touts Lithium as a proper catalyst for converting pseudoephidrine to methamphetamine, and gives detailed instructions for how to open lithium batteries to extract the lithium. Aside from mostly unworkable reactions throughout the book, it is obvious that the author either has never seen the inside of a lithium battery and has no comprehension of what one actually contains, - or is dead.

John