why do you get a shock when you touch electricity?
971282
because 2/3 of our bodies is water so that the electricity just pass our bodies and gives us a shock if it be power full it would kill us!
478025
its just static electricity as far as I know caused by friction such as when you rub a balloon on your head and your hair raises. Also our bodies are naturally full of electricity
436333
First find something fibrous like a carpet, a fuzzy carseat, or something else like that.  Rub your clothing on it for a good bit.  Make sure you aren't standing on or around something metal or it'll ground you instantly (thus negating any charge you'd build up).\n\nAdditionally, a factor that you have little control over--you must be in an area that has relatively low ambient humidity (<<10%).  If you live in a Rainforest, for example, pretty much nothing you do will generate enough static to create a shock.  Good luck and happy shocking.
349740
Yes the electricity sparks can cause an explosion. I read about that a long time ago.
1076592
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.
1039362
You need an energy transformer machine.  You put sound in, press the sound-to-electricity button and out comes electricity.  Make sure you have a storage cell attached or you'll get shocked.
174207
I think the electricity from the taser causes causes your all of your nervous cells to trigger all at once.  When a nervous cell is triggered it needs some time to recover before it can send another signal, so if all of your cells are in this recovery stage then I guess this is why it would incapacitate a person for a limited time.
205284
All the electrical parts are inside the dryer and can only shock you if submerged in water.  Don't go trying this, could be dangerous to your health.
753040
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1083308
I think water you know that the tap wtaer is hard water i.e it contains excess of Ca++ ions and also the water is made up up of h20 which is ionic in nature and now the the original part when the person touches the switch cause the person is covered all of his body with hard water which is a 98.456% conductor of electricity he gets a svere shock also you should be knowing humanbody is also a conductor of electricity blood is acetic so both media media make good conductors of electricity and no obstruction is observed. In this way the person may also die.\n so always when working with electricity wear rubber slippers which are insulators (dont conduct current).\n GO ON KEEP ASKING
652774
The current in a lightning bolt is as high as 30,000 Amperes with 1,000,000 or more Volts. The short duration of about 1-100 milliseconds limits, but doesn’t prevent injury. There are several mechanisms of lightning injury. The most severe is a direct strike, either on the victim or on some object the victim is holding such as a golf club, tripod or umbrella. A “side flash” occurs when lightning hits a nearby object and jumps to the victim. Ground current injures the victim when lightning strikes the ground nearby and it spreads to the person. Rarely, people maybe injured or killed indoors while using the telephone or taking a shower.
1010062
unlikely the lightning will strike you directly.  most likely cause of why people get shocked inside their house is because lightning can travel through the water pipes and the electrical wires.  if you are on the phone, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, chances are you will get shocked.
331591
I heard that AC interferes with your nervous system causing your muscles to clench, making it impossible for you to let go of whatever is electrocuting you. DC doesn't, so you can let go as soon as you feel the shock.
957176
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.
170742
yes every thing i touch schocks me  \n\nWe usually only notice static electricity in the winter when the air is very dry. During the summer, the air is more humid. The water in the air helps electrons move off you more quickly, so you can not build up as big a charge.
852065
Holding a metal object that you touch the thing that'll shock you works. The charge still goes through your body, but it enters your hand from the object across a large area instead of via a small spark, so no one nerve is stimulated sufficiently for you to notice it.
103937
Static electricity is caused by friction. When the air is dry like in winter there is more friction.