And part 2: as soon as the electrical current is removed, does the water become immediately safe to touch again?
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Nothing. It’s electricity that’s harmful, not water.
As for why getting in that water is dangerous, well… water is a bad conductor of electricity. And electricity likes to follow the most convenient path through things. So if you purify water, it won’t conduct electricity well. But if you dissolve conductive minerals or other impurities into the water, it might become a better conductor, because the electricity will follow a path through those *other* substances.
So if electricity tends to follow the most convenient path, and a human hops in, the only question is whether that human is a more convenient path than the water. And we are.
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