A teenage boy is thankful he's alive after an iPhone battery exploded on his chest.

The 15-year-old escaped with superficial burns, when flames erupted from the device at his Dakabin home, north of Brisbane, last night.

"They said that if the explosion happened in my eyes or acid dripped on my eyes, I most likely would've been blinded," Jay Watson told 9News.

Jay Watson has burns to his chest after an iPhone battery exploded in his hands. (Nine)

Jay admits he learnt the painful way, what happens when you bend a phone battery. (Nine)

"It was an initial yellow explosion and then flames came from that."

Jay was playing with the iPhone 6S battery in his bathroom.

He admits he bent the battery which sparked and quickly exploded onto his chest.

"I was just curious what was inside," he said.

His mum Kari Lashbrook heard screams and immediately called triple zero.

"There were some sections where the battery had like spurted some form of acid or something, you could see they were really quite deep," she said.

"I was so worried."

The acid from the battery seared several layers of skin from Jay's chest.

He was rushed to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a stable condition. Doctors were shocked he suffered only superficial burns.

Authorities and manufacturers warn against playing with any kind of phone battery due to the volatility of the materials inside.

But Jay isn't the only one to carry out his own science experiment at home.

Hundreds of people have posted their experiences online after stabbing and hitting smart phone batteries.

Jay however, says he's learned his lesson, admitting it was a painful one.

"Would've been smarter to Google, I thought about that in the ambulance ride after," he said.

As for his mum, she claims he's had a talking to.