Why do I always get electric shocks especially when the weather is hot?
354210
you mean static shocks its built up sdick electricity and when you touch metal it discharges. there for shocking you. its not real elctrisity.
378931
Depends on the construction of your house. On a standard stucco, wood-frame and gypsum house such as mine, you wouldn't feel anything right away. However you'll feel some heat in a few minutes as THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!\n\nIf you live in a steel-frame house, you might get some electro-static field effects, but since these are well grounded, you won't get much more than that.
553986
When I was about 10 years old I tried to heat up a metal rod on the coils of a 2kW electric radiator. I vaguely remember that a moment passed and then wham! I was thrown back so hard I toppled the settee behind me.\n\nSurprisingly I suffered no other ill-effects, not even a burnt thumb and forefinger.\n\nElectricity is dangerous stuff.\n\nIt was an interesting experience, not to be repeated.
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not neccessarily, it really depends if your wearing shoes or not. of course your asking, how do i verify this?\n\nwell their is this thing called conductors and instulators. conductors means current can go through and insulators means it can't. the reason why humans get charged up because their friction causes electrons to build up in their body.\n\nso basically, touch someone else for fun and you might verify that shock.
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456041
Your body is trying to get rid of excess heat.  It dilates the capilaries in your skin to allow an increased blood flow so that the blood cools faster.\n\nYou probably don't sweat enough, or it's very humid when this happens.
216173
Could be. You might also feel a tingling in your feet or on your body. If that happens, if your hair stands or you feel tingling outside, esp. when the conditions are right for lightning, HIT THE DIRT! That could make the difference btween living and dying.
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I assume you are talking about a static shock.\n\nTo put it simply. The body is a pretty decent conductor of electricty as well as a capacitor (something that stores electrical charge). When electric charge builds up, but has no place to go thats what we call a static charge. You can see this when you rub a balloon on your head and it makes your hair stick up, and the balloon may even stick to your head. This is due to static electricity.\n\nWhen you have a charge built up on your skin, but have not grounded yourself, say by touching something metal, that charge will remain there until it has someplace to go. Electricity will move in the direction of least resistance, and as soon as you touch another person, or a ground of some sort it "jumps" from its stored state (static state) into the least (or less) resistive medium.
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The threshold current to feel an electrical shock on human skin is in the range of one to twenty thousandths of an ampere or 1 - 20 mA. Contrast this with the current drawn by a 100 watt light bulb, about 1000 mA or 1 A.\n\nThe voltage required to produce a "shock sensation" varies, depending on the dry or moist nature of the skin contacted. Dry skin requires more voltage to reach the threshold level of shock sensation.\n\nMany years ago it was fairly common practice to "taste" electricity from a 1.5 volt dry cell as a "demonstration of electricity." I doubt this is encouraged today, but I have experienced that sensation by holding my thumb against one end of the cell and pressing the other end lightly to my tongue, ostensibly to determine whether the cell is any good. That worked okay for me until one day I tried to test a 9 volt transistor radio battery by touching both electrodes (that's what the little button and cup on the battery is called) to my tongue. Ouch! I received a very painful shock. After that I used a voltmeter to check batteries.\n\nAlso many years ago, there was a popular device installed in roller skating rinks, bars, and other public places to "test your strength" by grasping two vertical metal handles that were connected to an induction coil, a device for producing high voltage electricity. As one of the handles was rotated the voltage increased, the object being to rotate the handle all the way to its mechanical stop without having to let go. Such devices are extremely dangerous because the current passes through both hands and the chest, possibly inducing a fatal fibrillation in the heart muscle.\n\nIt is best to be extremely careful not to get shocked in the first place. Even very small currents, if they pass through the heart, can be fatal. That is why it is common practice for those who work with "live" circuits to always do so with only one hand, keeping the other hand in a pocket to avoid making a complete circuit through the body.
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Hello,\nLightening is caused due to the build up of electrons in the upper layers of the clouds during a storm. These electrons are attracted towards the positive potential of the earth, but the air gives a stiff resistance and does not allow the electricity to pass through. But when a huge potential has been accumulated, the electricity forces its way through the air molecules. This causes a lot of friction and hence releases heat energy. A tremendous amount of heat energy. This causes the air molecules to vibrate and this produces the cracking sound known as thunder. Thunder rattles the windows if it is loud enough. Sound is just the air particles vibrating and when the vibrating air molecules hit the window, they cause it to rattle. Lightning usually strikes the highest point and the most positively charged area. This is becuz lightning looks for the easiest way out of air. A high place means it has to travel less distance...
998109
In the case of welding dc is better, but in the case of electric shock ac is better (if better can be used to describe electric shock) but not at heights.The reason is that dc shock causes your muscles to contract which means you grip whatever is giving you the shock and as you continue to be shocked you grip more. With ac because it is pulsing it causes your muscles to expand and contract which tends to throw off your hand/etc from whatever is shocking you. The problem with heights is when you get a shock and you're high up ac will cause you to be propelled backwards, usually away from safety and out into the wild blue yonder. I have had the miss fortune to witness this in real life when working in the steel erection industry.\n\nDave B
12356
Sounds like static electricty, which tends to develop in windy dry conditions.  Check it out.
137468
any movement thru a fluid produces static electricity.\nDriving(movement)+ Air(fluid)=Shock.\n\nThe tires insulate the charge from going to ground until you touch it. You are then the conduit to ground.
465336
I don't know but I'm the same way,,,weird, I'm always hot, even when it's cold out....and when summer time hit's I'm always in big trouble, cause i"m always hot as it is but then the heat combined I feel sick...
323586
You only get an electrical shock if you touch both the wire and another thing (in most people's case, the ground) Then the current passes from the cable to the other thing through you. If you're ever silly enough to try, you can hang from the cable with one hand and nothing will happen to you, either.
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A shock is caused by a flow of current through a body. So for the bird to be shocked there would need to be a current running through her body. There is no current running through the bird's body for two reasons. The first reason is that the bird's body has a high resistance, so the current would rather pass through the wire instead of the bird. Since the current can go through the wire or through the bird to get to the same point, you can think of the wire as being a highway and the bird as a one way mountainous country road. It is easier for the current to pass through the highway (or wire) than it would to take the harder mountainous route (the bird). The second, and more important, reason no current passes through the bird is that in order for current to flow through the bird there must be a voltage across the bird's body. Since, the bird is careful to have both feet on the same wire there is not enough voltage across the bird's body to allow current to flow. If the bird were to touch the wire and at the same time the ground or some object connected to the ground, it would receive a deadly shock.
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This can happen normally if you are cold and a chill runs through you. Sometimes it's just something spontaneous even if you aren't cold. But if it's somethign that happens all the time, I don't know what it could be.