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ATTN: Arivia: Regarding electricution. by RetiQlum22007-06-03 21:03:55
  while your here, a question for you by Freakazoid2007-06-03 21:17:07
    You can burn the body to ashes and smoke to a... by RetiQlum2 2007-06-03 21:34:21
...certain extent, but once the salts and water have evaporated, there is nothing left to conduct electricity. Carbon isn't a conductor by itself. Pure ater isn't even a conductor, it requires conductive materials in it (like salt, iron in the blood, potassium, chloride, etc.)

So the answer is not directly. If you killed someone, took the electrodes away, reconstituted the body, and reconnected the electrodes, hundreds of times: possibly. There would probably still be something left though; biology isn't my strong suit.

The reason why 60-100 Hz is so dangerous is that it's at about the same as your heart rate. Your heart is opporated by electrical signals from the nerves in a couple of waves from top to bottom. The waves are of different sizes in order to operate different chambers. 60 hearts disrupts this disparity in the waves and over rides it with a plain sine wave. The heart then tries to activate all for chambers at once( called fibrillation) which kills you dead very quickly. I know all of this because we built ECG's in one of my junior level courses and had to be VERY careful (if the 10k Ohm resistor was shorted, we could have killed one of our classmates.)
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