• Question: How dose electricty kill people

    Asked by tune49wry on 25 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Marcello Valente

      Marcello Valente answered on 25 Nov 2020:

      dear Tune49wry,
      outside burn damage to tissue, electricity can easly move trought your nerve a blocking the brain or your other organs

    • Photo: Danny Hnatyshin

      Danny Hnatyshin answered on 25 Nov 2020:

      Two potential ways! Your nerve cells use electrical signals to communicate and electricity can overwhelm these connections causing your body to go crazy. For example it can stop or change your heart beats, and that what could kill you.

      Also electricity can cause a lot of heat (think about how lightning can start forest fires) so you can get severe burns from electricity.

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