"Trevor Wilson" wrote in
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"François Yves Le Gal" wrote in
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:10:19 +0000,
Goofball_star_dot_etal wrote:

You could kill them with a
pp9 battery, note.

Considering that skin resistance is more than 10 K, that
fibrillation can happen with currents above 50 ma, what
is the minimum lethal level of voltage per Ohm's law?

**You can't generalise. There are a raft of differences
between humans. There are differences between humans,
depending on what they've eaten or drunk. I've measured
resistances much lower and much higher than 10k.
Differences in the resistance of the internal parts can
vary much more still.
BTW: I've never met anyone in the electrical/electronics
business (at a technical level) who has sweaty palms.

I'm not proud to admit that dry oily skin has saved my life any number of
times. I've survived minor shocks by just about every kind of electrical
power there is through 240v 60 Hz, 350 VDC and 416 V 400 Hz.