Eli5: Why do domestic fire alarms take a rectangular battery instead of AA/AAA?

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Eli5: Why do domestic fire alarms take a rectangular battery instead of AA/AAA?

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Those rectangular batteries are 9 volts, AA batteries are 1.5 volts, so it would take 6 AA batteries to replace 1 rectangular battery.
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