Hi everyone
First off warning again that these questions will seem very weird. Please bear with me, and as I explained in my previous posts, I am not familiar with electricity (although I have tried reading internet resources, but they are usually too high level or does not answer my question specifically) and appreciate your patience.
1) Is this true : touching the prongs of a live plug (say, connected to a light/computer or whatever) is less dangerous (less volts and amps) than sticking a fork in the socket and holding the fork at the tip/end, because in the first scenerio the electrons are "split" within the two prongs and your fingers (since the light stays on and the computer stays on even while you are touching a live plug), and in the last scenerio the electrons go straight into the fork and there is only one channel - your hand at the end. so you get full shock of 120 volts. is this true?
5) Water still stays in liquid form even when electricity is running through it. for example, if you drop a toaster in the bathtub the water doesn't explode. it just has electricity running through it. If you put a piece of plastic over two prongs of a live plug, nothing would happen because plastic is an insulator. but what would happen if the plastic was wet? would the water on the plastic and the two prongs of the live plug form a circuit, so the plastic would melt/explode? (similar to touching a fork across a live plug) Or would the water heat up and evaporate so quickly that the plastic would be dry and it would act as an insulator if someone touched it?
3) what happens if a fork or metal pin touches the the heating element
of a gas stove and/or a water kettle will the
fork/metal object conduct electricity and short circuit the heating
element?
Thank you! Have a great day.
First off warning again that these questions will seem very weird. Please bear with me, and as I explained in my previous posts, I am not familiar with electricity (although I have tried reading internet resources, but they are usually too high level or does not answer my question specifically) and appreciate your patience.
1) Is this true : touching the prongs of a live plug (say, connected to a light/computer or whatever) is less dangerous (less volts and amps) than sticking a fork in the socket and holding the fork at the tip/end, because in the first scenerio the electrons are "split" within the two prongs and your fingers (since the light stays on and the computer stays on even while you are touching a live plug), and in the last scenerio the electrons go straight into the fork and there is only one channel - your hand at the end. so you get full shock of 120 volts. is this true?
5) Water still stays in liquid form even when electricity is running through it. for example, if you drop a toaster in the bathtub the water doesn't explode. it just has electricity running through it. If you put a piece of plastic over two prongs of a live plug, nothing would happen because plastic is an insulator. but what would happen if the plastic was wet? would the water on the plastic and the two prongs of the live plug form a circuit, so the plastic would melt/explode? (similar to touching a fork across a live plug) Or would the water heat up and evaporate so quickly that the plastic would be dry and it would act as an insulator if someone touched it?
3) what happens if a fork or metal pin touches the the heating element
of a gas stove and/or a water kettle will the
fork/metal object conduct electricity and short circuit the heating
element?
Thank you! Have a great day.