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Article #9746Re: HELP!
From: Michael A. Covington
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 16:29
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 16:29
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My point was that "Voltage doesn't kill, only current kills" is a dangerous half-truth. Of *course* high voltage isn't dangerous if supplied through a very high resistance, as in a Van de Graaff generator. But I've heard of people who believed that "voltage isn't dangerous -- only current is dangerous" and concluded that, e.g., sticking one's finger into a 120-V outlet isn't dangerous because that's a source of volts, not amps.
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