Thursday, March 11, 2010

If you were taking a bath in distilled water but were using soap. Should you still worry about electric shock?

Only if someone throws an electrical appliance in the bath with you.If you were taking a bath in distilled water but were using soap. Should you still worry about electric shock?
distilled water = purified water


That means most of the ions are removed (compared to regular water where there are lots of ions). Without ions, there's nothing to conduct electricity. But you said there's soap. Soap are ionized on one end of the soap molecule (soap = hydrophobic + hydrophilic, which means one end of it is ionized), so the water will have ions, which will conduct electricity. So yes, WORRY about that shock!

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