[Jewelry making - Article 00899] - Re: [Orchid] Metal Shrunk by Powerful Magnetic Field?

[Rick]

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>     People talk about high voltage electricity (and I wrongly used the
>     term myself) being a killer, but it's really the current with which
>     that voltage flows that is the killer. 

    With no practical education or training in electricity, what I
    learned about electricity came from the school of hard shocks. My
    accident proness includes many bouts with electricity. But my junior
    highschool science teacher told a tale of two men that had a bet
    that 12 volts would/wouldn't kill you. So they set up an experiment
    with massive copper cables attached to a 12 volt battery and the one
    who was on the betting side of 12 volts wouldn't kill you held on to
    the cables then placed both arms in a barral of brine. According to
    the story he dropped dead immediately. Whether the story is true or
    not it stuck in my mind and gave me a rudimentary understanding of
    volts and amperage. Sounds like a good myth for Mythbusters to bust
    or confirm. 

Rick Copeland
Silversmith and Lapidary Artisan
Rocky Mountain Wonders
Colorado Springs, Colorado
rockymountainwonders.com
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