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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: Question about Electricity
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In all this talk about whether water is a "conductor" or not,
people sound like they think this is an all-or-nothing
proposition.  Pure water has fairly high (but not infinite)
resistivity, but it doesn't take much in the way of ionic
impurities to reduce its resistivity substantially.  Since a
swimming pool (postulated in the original problem) would
have hypochlorite salts dissolved in it, it would conduct
electricity much better than pure water.