On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 10:26:14 AM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:29:12 -0000, wrote:

If you touch a hot 120 V wire while standing in socks on your concrete basement
floor or on a deck outside, you WILL get a shock.


It's up to you if you want to call that __conducting__ or not.

You don't get enough current through a 20MOhm resistance to give you even a tingle.

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Conducting is not a absolute term, there are various degrees of conducting. Thats why they make Ohm meters.

I just tested in my dry basement. Two bare feet on concrete tested about 50K Ohms. Not enough to light a light bulb, but enough to give a shock.

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