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Default "Touching (one or both terminals of) button batteries causes themto discharge" - any truth?

On 03/10/2020 17:43, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
The Natural Philosopher has brought this to us :
Utter ********


Your skin deposits are conductive. Were that no so, you would be unable
to receive a shock when touching mains voltages, nor would you leave
fingerprints behind, on everything you touch.


but they are only conductive when wet, and fingerprints are oils, not
water based solids

And the water based parts dry out.


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that cannot be done worse and more expensively and with higher carbon
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