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Q. Why does electricity kill?

A. Electricity is safe in low voltages and currents. You might have heard this saying, “it’s not the voltage that kills but the current”, well…this is wrong. High voltages would lead to high currents through the equation, V=IR. The higher the voltage, the higher the current. That’s why you’ll see warnings like, high voltage keep off.

Both AC and DC are dangerous in high voltages. Electricity can kill if if flows through a person because it can disrupt the heart, and stop it. Because the human body has a really high resistance, a high enough voltage can increase the temperature and literally fry the person.

In low voltages, AC is more dangerous than DC while in high voltages, the are both dangerous

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AC stands for Alternating Current and DC stands for Direct Current.