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Maybe if you step on a downed power line or get hit by lightning.
The lithium battery of a cellphone doesn't carry enough joules to electrocute you
(not enough in a 9-volt battery, either... sorry.)
The lithium battery of a cellphone doesn't carry enough joules to electrocute you
(not enough in a 9-volt battery, either... sorry.)
Joules shouldn't matter. You need the amperes at the right frequency to confuse your cardiac muscle control system, and you can achieve that with very little energy.
In order to drive those amperes into your heart which hopefully resides deep in your chest, you would admittedly need a lot of voltage, meaning a lot of joules if you are going the usual "let's press these live wires to my chest" or "let's drop this appliance in the bath with me" route. If you do a bit of invasive surgery, you should be able to make do with the voltage of a regular battery, and thus with the wattage and the jouleage, too. But why you'd go to all that trouble with a cell phone battery specifically is a different matter... (If you can do the invasive surgery, just grab the damn organ and squeeze the life out of it!)
If you get insufficient amperes, or enough amperes/watts but at the wrong frequency, you can probably survive the zap just fine (either on your skin or with a deeply inserted electrode pair). People have lived through lots of wattage, say, being fried at several kilovolts in an electric chair, because the hertzes were wrong for inducing cardiac arrest or the current didn't dive inside the body.
Timo Saloniemi
In order to drive those amperes into your heart which hopefully resides deep in your chest, you would admittedly need a lot of voltage, meaning a lot of joules if you are going the usual "let's press these live wires to my chest" or "let's drop this appliance in the bath with me" route. If you do a bit of invasive surgery, you should be able to make do with the voltage of a regular battery, and thus with the wattage and the jouleage, too. But why you'd go to all that trouble with a cell phone battery specifically is a different matter... (If you can do the invasive surgery, just grab the damn organ and squeeze the life out of it!)
If you get insufficient amperes, or enough amperes/watts but at the wrong frequency, you can probably survive the zap just fine (either on your skin or with a deeply inserted electrode pair). People have lived through lots of wattage, say, being fried at several kilovolts in an electric chair, because the hertzes were wrong for inducing cardiac arrest or the current didn't dive inside the body.
Timo Saloniemi
True enough, Hell a AA "could" kill you if done right... I remember back in highschool I put a 9volt battery on a kids upper and lower braces.. He said it was hitting him with a hammer
One of my older brothers showed me, at a young age, how to test a 9V battery using my tongue. It bit, but not that bad. To this day I won't do it anymore even though it was a harmless shock.
Right, but remember this wasn't on his tongue.. It was on upper and lower braces. So now his whole head becomes the path..
Right, but remember this wasn't on his tongue.. It was on upper and lower braces. So now his whole head becomes the path..
How so?
Right, but remember this wasn't on his tongue.. It was on upper and lower braces. So now his whole head becomes the path..
How so?
remember, the 9 volt on your tongue. look how close the contacts are. less then an inch.. It tingles and feels kinda funny.
Okay now you have metal on your upper and lower teeth. I put the contacts there.. Now you have to complete the path. your mouth is always wet. teeth->gums->skull.. I swear to you a could hear a pop when I did it. I don't think with a 1.5 you "feel" it as bad. But with 9 volts. Much more "bang" there..
I'm not certain where you're getting 1.5volts when applied to the tongue, but after I posted I got to thinking that the moisture and muscle of the tongue provides resistance, whereas the braces are a complete metal path with posts drive into the gumline.
Speaking of 9 volt batteries, in 7th grade we were doing different tests with circuits in science and someone had the bright idea to use my braces in this said experiment with a light switch. The teacher actually let us do this. I blacked out for a few seconds and spit all over the table. It was baaaad.
I sure wish they could.
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