Electrical Engineering

I have a bed for which the headrest can be adjusted. There are 2 separate power inputs for each side like in the picture:

In addition, there is a set of 9V batteries on each side, presumably for backup:

By looking at the battery, is it possible to determine what happened to it? There has been no water damage or anything else I can think of. The batteries were old, I don't even know how old. Is this a normal failure mode for old batteries?

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