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Yes. Flooding inside the home can also be dangerous if the water reaches electric components or the electric box. People have been electrocuted when walking into flooded areas of their home where the water level reaches electric outlets. It is also dangerous to switch off the electricity with wet hands or while standing in water.

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What is the difference between electrocuted and electrified?

Electrocuted means to be killed by electric shock. Electrified would actually be like making a wire or piece of metal or something of the like charged with electricity, but most people use the word the wrong way, and they mean it as: to be shocked.


Why should you not use an iron rod to push a live wire?

Iron rod is a conductive material. You will get electrocuted if you touch a live wire with any conductive material like iron rod. It could be fatal to do so.


Why would an eagle be electrocuted when touching a hot wire and the metal crossbar at the same time?

An eagle can be electrocuted when it touches a hot wire and a metal crossbar simultaneously because it creates a path for electricity to flow through its body. The hot wire carries a high voltage, while the crossbar is grounded or at a different potential. When the eagle bridges the gap between these two points, it completes the electrical circuit, allowing current to pass through it, which can be lethal.


Bats cannot touch electrical wires?

False. Bats are capable of avoiding electrical wires while flying, as they use echolocation to navigate their surroundings. However, if a bat were to accidentally come into contact with an electrical wire, it could potentially be electrocuted.


I cut the head off an extension cord with uninsulated wire pliers while the extension cord was still plugged in. I was not electrocuted but the pliers were destroyed. Why did I not get electrocuted?

The reason you were lucky not to have been electrocuted was probably because of these reasons:1) This sequence took place within much less than a second: the pliers first cut through the Neutral wire, not the Hot wire, and that Neutral wire protected you when the pliers then went on to cut through the Hot wire.2) The jaws of the pliers probably melted from the high current but that same high current caused the household power supply circuit's fuse or circuit breaker to cut off the currentbefore you could be electrocuted.We all do something like that at some time or other, not only with electricity but using any tools we are unfamiliar with... driving a car... whatever. Now you must know that you were foolish to cut the cord without first making sure that the cord was unplugged from the supply outlet!Sometimes we have to learn things the hard way and this was one good result from your mistake.

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What is the difference between electrocuted and electrified?

Electrocuted means to be killed by electric shock. Electrified would actually be like making a wire or piece of metal or something of the like charged with electricity, but most people use the word the wrong way, and they mean it as: to be shocked.


How birds sitting on the wire?

you have to be incontact with the ground to get electrocuted!


Will a man get electrocuted if he sits on one electrical wire?

if he had bunyans


Why don't birds get shocked on high voltage wires?

Birds can sit on powerlines without being shocked because, in order to be shocked, your body needs to be touching both the powerline and the ground at the same time, so that there is a path for current to flow.If birds sit on a powerline, they aren't touching the ground. This means that they will not be shocked.Another explanationTo be electrocuted you not only need a point at which the electricity enters your body but also a point at which the electricity exits your body. Because the birds are only touching one wire there is no place for the electricity to exit, and this prevents them from getting electrocuted.


Metaphor simile ect for shocked?

As shocked as a bird landing on live wire. :)


Will you get shocked if you touch just the hot wire?

Yes, you can get shocked if you touch just the hot wire because it carries electrical current.


Why do electrical tools have insulating handles?

because if you touch a wire you might get electrocuted


Can you get shocked by a neutral wire?

No, you cannot get shocked by a neutral wire under normal circumstances because it carries the return current and is at a similar voltage level as the ground.


Why doesnt a bird standing on a high voltage wire get electrocuted?

The wires are coated in rubber.


How does bird land in wires without getting electrocuted?

The outside of cables is coated in a protective sleeve - that insulates the wire from the weather. So long as the bird doesn't touch the conductor - it's fine.


Why did Eurydice die in Antigone?

she got electrocuted by a wire when orpheus turned on the power in a train station.


How do you use the word shocked in a sentence?

The town was shocked when they heard the news.The unexpected proposal shocked her at first.Because he didn't take proper precautions, he got shocked by the wires he was working on.