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Would You Get Electrocuted If.?

If you were talking on the phone to someone and dropped the phone into a bathtub filled with water would they get electrocuted? Does it matter if it's wireless or not?

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this is a gd ? it depends on diff kinds of phones but i think mostly no because there not high
No and yes. No they would not get electrocuted because they DROPPED the phone. They would also not be electrocuted because phones operate on 60 volts. Enough to feel, but newhere near enough to hurt you, bathtub or no. Wireless makes a difference because it runs on batteries. The batteries would short out, the phone would be destroyed. But in no way do the batteries contain enough energy to kill you.
If it's corded, possibly. If it's wireless, they'll probably get a decent shock, but it won't electrocute them. There's not nearly enough chemical energy in a phone battery to kill a person.
Hold on gang.she asked if they would get shocked. Do you mean the person being spoken to by the person who dropped the phone? If so, the answer is no. A shock occurs when your body connects a source of electricity and the ground. The person you're speaking to is not in the path that the electricty takes to ground even if the devices along the wire would permit the transmission.
A Wireless is ran by battery so you may not get electrocuted. Instead of being wired to your house electrical line, most telephones are powered by storage batteries located at the telephone company's central headquarters. The storage batteries, of course, are themselves charged by the local electric company line, but when possible, the phone company, in its infinite wisdom, tries to connect to two different power sources--in case the generator supplying one line goes out, they can fall back on the other. If everything fails, the batteries can usually supply enough current to cover short breaks in service. Should there be a longer interruption, many of the central stations are equipped with diesel generators that can be pressed into action with a flick of the switch. All of this complicated re-routing of electricity is made necessary by the happy fact that the telephone runs on a much smaller current than that supplied to homes by the power company--a happy fact because that's what keeps you from roasting your eyebrows when you're phoning from the tub. It takes a mere 100 milliamps of current flowing through your bod to bring on a killer dose of ventricular fibrillation, as they call it in the trade. Your heart stops beating and starts to quiver like an emotionally distressed bowl of Jell-O, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and other vital organs. The electrical outlets in your home pack a whopping 15 amps; your humble telephone carries less than a tenth of a milliamp. That isn't much, but under some circumstances it might be enough to do a little damage, so underwater telephony should still be approached with caution. No deaths have ever been reported from this sort of thing, but there's a first time for everything.

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