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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: How can I recognize true ground?
Message-ID: <17660012@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 17:56:00 GMT
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>Yikes.  I frequently test a 9-volt battery by touching the electrodes to
>my tongue.  Is this dangerous?

Not especially.  While you are providing a low-resistance path for the current,
the path does not take the current anywhere near what might be considered
"important parts".  (Such as the heart, etc...)  I'm not sure what the 
long-term effects on your TONGUE will be ("Oh no, we don' hafta cut that off!
Two, three days maybe, it fall off all by itself... :-)), but you're
not going to stop your heart by zapping your tongue.  (Otherwise, we'd see
all the TV ER doctors clamping defibrillator paddles onto their patient's
toungues.  Well, maybe in a Mel Brooks movie...)

Bob "Hmmm. Strange mood today, eh wot?" M.