> What you say is of course true, but I'm surprised by your anecdote at the end. Another way "volt" is described is "force." My understanding is that when you get shocked, the "force" of the shock depends on the voltage, whereas how much damage it does is more dependent on the current.
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> In other words, high voltage, low current, will give you a powerful shock but likely do no damage, whereas low voltage, high current won't hurt so much as kill you from the physical damage it does.
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> So I'm kind of surprised you could get shocked by 100,000 volts and only feel a mild tingling.
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Voltage doesn't really measure force. It measures the amount of energy per electron, or the size of the gap that the electrons can "spark" across.

The damage caused by an electric shock depends on the rate at which the shock dumps energy into your body, or its power. Power is voltage times current, and minuscule current is the reason the typical high-voltage static electricity shock is harmless.

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