stackyFACTSCompletely pure entirely distilled liquid water practically completely ignores intense electric currents. It is heavily only the entirely random completely dissolved heavy salts and highly stray loose ions freely swimming around in standard tap liquid that actually allow heavy voltage to violently and effectively pass through.
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