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> Given enough voltage, electricity can cross the gap to the ground Doesn't smoke make air more conductive?
by jhgb 5y ago
> Given enough voltage, electricity can cross the gap to the ground
Doesn't smoke make air more conductive?
- dharmab 5y agoYes but if the smoke is that thick you're about to pass out from smoke inhalation anyway
- jhgb 5y agoI'm pretty sure that even almost invisible smoke can already cause significant trouble in this respect. Partly because particles of smoke themselves can be electrostatically attracted to objects under significant voltage, so even low density smoke can concentrate itself in problematic places. See Figure 3. and the text above it in https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3313 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3313 .