Saturday, December 24, 2011

Can electricity pass through flash light?


      Following story is being spread through e-mails. It is said to be a true incidence. 

  "A boy aged 19, who was studying in 1st year of engineering, who died in Keshvani Hospital, Mumbai. He was admitted in the Hospital as a burned patient.
Reason??
     This boy had gone to Amravati (a place located in State of Maharashtra ) on a study tour, on their return they were waiting at the railway station to catch the train. Many of them started taking pictures of their friends using “Mobile Phones” and / or “Digital Camera”. One of them complained that, he was unable to capture the full group of friends in one frame in the Digicam.
      This boy moved away to a distance to get the whole group.
     He failed to notice that at an angle above his head, 40,000 volts electrical line was passing through.
     As soon as he clicked the digital camera? 40,000 volt current passed through the camera flash light to his camera and then from his camera to his fingers & to his body. All this happened within a fraction of a second. His body was half burned.
     They arranged for an ambulance & his burned body was brought to Keshavani Hospital, Mumbai.For one & half days or so he was conscious & talking. Doctors did not have much hopes as there was a lot of complex issues in his body. He passed away later."

Now the question comes in mind that "Can electricity pass through flash light?"
Answer:
     Electricity can pass through flash light only when many complicated initial conditions are applied on that incident place.

     Above story can be studied well through following statements;
1. Light doesn't conduct electricity that is one of the stupidest thing's I've ever heard.
2. But what if it has nothing to do with the light? It takes a high voltage capacitor discharge to drive a xenon flash bulb. If he was close enough to the power lines that it was on the verge of arcing anyway, could that discharge somehow have been enough to trigger the arc?
Further information can be taken by visiting following forum link.
Also, one can visit Yahoo Answers link for this question by clicking here

     Now, how many of us are aware about these technical threats & dangers? Even if we are, how many of us are adhering?? Now should we call ourselves as educated and knowledgeable people?
1. Please avoid mobile phones on petrol outlets.
2. Please avoid talking on mobile phones while driving.
3. Change that “Chalta Hai Yaar Attitude”.
4. Please avoid talking on mobile phones while kept in charging mode without disconnecting from wall socket.
5. Please do not keep mobile phones on your bed while charging and / on wooden furniture.
6. Avoid using mobile phones / Digital cameras near high voltage electrical lines like in railway stations and avoid using flash.

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