WHY ARE WATER AND ELECTRICITY A DEADLY COMBINATION?

Water itself doesn’t conduct electricity particularly well, it’s the chemicals dissolved in it that are the source of the trouble.



For example, the salt content
of seawater makes it a million times better at conducting electricity than ultra-pure water.

 Evenso, even a trace of water can prove fatal with high voltages. People have been killed thinking they can move live cables using a freshly-broken tree branch.

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