ELECTROCUTION! can someone help out a layman writer?
 

odd question here, but any help would be treasured!

can a quantity of activated D alkaline batteries tossed into a swimming pool create enough of a charge to electrocute a person? a small animal?

does chlorine (or another chemical) facilitate the conductivity of electricity?

if i'm trying to electrocute someone in a pool (no worries, this is fiction), are my only options a lightning bolt from mother nature or an electrical appliance plugged in somewhere nearby?

THANKS!

In my humble opinion, i say you that from 48 volts to up with a low body electrical resistance (lower is about 5000 ohms, which is reached when the body is wet with conductive liquid, as water mixed with salt) resultant current can be deadly. But other factor is a basic law of electricity what says "electricity follows the easier path" so if you put a series of batteries like to have a higher voltage an put them into a pool filled with salted water the result will be only an electrolysis which occurs on the "super battery" poles that can be seen by the " victim" which is in the pool, ¿why? current flows from negative pole to positive pole directly without passing through the body (real direction of current, positive to negative direction is called conventional way). That´s what i know so please don´t defy me to get me into a pool with a thousand of batteries in series to probe that i´m right because i have no money for so many batteries... good luck!

thank you so much, tv2q0.
i'm not sure i understand all of what you wrote, but thanks for taking the time to respond.

Yeh, its the thought that counts. :lol:

what didn´t you understand exactly? did i write wrong, is it my english bad?, or i used an extremely scientific language? (not for reproach your answer but to know what a did wrong, to improve myself)