Re: How do people conduct electrictiy????????

Date: Thu Apr 13 17:30:44 2000
Posted By: Dave Featherstone, Post-doc/Fellow, Biology, University of Utah
Area of science: Biophysics
ID: 952301033.Bp

Message:


People contain mostly salty water, which is a pretty good
conductor of electricity.  Not as good as most metals, like copper,
silver, or gold, but much better than bad conductors like wood or glass.

Dried up people (like mummies) don't conduct electricity very well at all.

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