Help! My battery is BOILING hot! What happened?

Sorry about that!!! It sounds like the battery acid leaked out... that's right ACID!!! this happend when the battery is over used. Batterys have acid in them in order to help them work and since the battery was over used and dropped the acid must of seeped out burning your hand... this happened to me once trust me I know what it feels like.... I just put some aloe vera gel on the burn and but a band aid on it.... once again sorry about that!!!! Hope this helps! !!!!!!

It's interesting that the problem happened just after you reinserted the batteries. The question does not seem to need an exotic explanation. It's hard to damage today's batteries unless you throw them off a tall building. Dropping the remote could have resulted in a short circuit in the remote. Typically alkaline batteries do not get hot enough to burn skin when shorted. If the batteries were lithium a short has been know to start fies. Many a laptop computers have met their demise from them.

Otherwise it might be the case that the majority of the heat was externally applied from another heat source nearby (candle, coffee cup warmer, sunny summer day, etc).

Enough heat could have ruptured the battery leaking the chemical. Most likely I suspect the simple explanation, they were reinstalled backwards. Unfortunately the remote may have been damaged too.

The remote probably has nothing to do with the cell getting hot.

[If it is at fault, the same thing will happen with other cells.

In this case, replace the remote.]

The most likely cause would be that the cell shorted internally.

This can happen at any time for no apparent reason,

or because of electrical or physical damage.

>> Cells rarely become hot enough to cause any trouble

beyond what you experienced.

No matter how painful it may be, I have to believe that the burn

is only of the first (redness) or second (blistering) degree;

third degree burns result from skin actually being on fire,

and also involve deeper tissues.

Ordinary batteries just simply do not get that hot from being shorted.

The battery was shorting out this caused the heat. When things like this happen sort it straight away or one day you will have a fire to sort out.

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Just as a thought, I think the battery obviously exploded because of a malfunction within the charge, lol. Crazy right?