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To: Timpanagos1

Voltage doesn’t kill, amperage does. As little as 200 milli amps across the chest through the heart can do you in.


21 posted on 07/11/2017 9:05:34 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ..)
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To: Lmo56; All

Completely correct:

https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

It’s The Current That Kills. Any electrical device used on a house wiring circuit can, under certain conditions, transmit a fatal current. While any amount of current over 10 milliamps (0.01 amp) is capable of producing painful to severe shock, currents between 100 and 200 mA (0.1 to 0.2 amp) are lethal.


32 posted on 07/11/2017 9:18:21 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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