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What will happen If you touch a live wire with one hand and the ground with the other hand while your feet are insulated?
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∙ 11y ago
The current will flow from the live wire to the ground, through both of your hands,
through both of your arms, and along several paths through the rest of your body
in inverse proportion to the resistance of each path.
With your heart and spinal cord pretty much on the geometrically direct path, your
chance of survival essentially boils down to the voltage on the live wire, how dry
the skin of your hands is, and how much of your skin touches the live wire and the
ground connection. If the live wire is part of the AC wiring in your house, and you
have a good firm grip on it, and the fingers of your other hand are wrapped around
a water pipe, I would not give you a 1% chance of seeing another day.
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Why does static electricity not last?
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