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ARTICLES RELATED TO High voltage - Toxic gases | | | |  High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Safety and insurance industryWhilst mains voltages are capable of delivering fatal shocks and may constitute high-voltage hazards, they cannot jump significant distances, so they are dangerous only if touched. Therefore standards bodies do not generally refer to them as high voltages.
Various safety and insurance organizations consider anything outside of the ELV range (i.e. greater than 50 V) to be dangerous and in need of regulation. Voltages above this range are capable of producing heart fibrillation if they produce electric currents in body tissues wh ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Lightning The largest-scale sparks are those produced naturally by lightning. Each stroke carries hundreds of thousands of amperes, at potentials of upwards of a million volts, with hundreds of joules of energy released in each strike. Each stroke lasts for only tens of microseconds. Hazards due to lightning obviously include a direct strike on persons or property. However, lightning can also create dangerous voltage gradients in the earth, and can charge extended metal objects such as telephone cables, fences, and pipelines to dangerous voltages that ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Power lines Transmission lines for electric power always use voltages in excess of 50 volts, so contact with or close approach to the line conductors presents a danger of electrocution. Contact with overhead wires is a frequent cause of injury or death. Metal ladders, farm equipment, boat masts, construction machinery, television antennas, and similar objects are frequently involved in fatal contact with overhead wires. Digging into a buried cable can also be dangerous to workers at the excavation site. Digging equipment (either hand tools or machine dr ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Explosion Hazard Even voltages insufficient to break down air can be associated with enough energy to ignite atmospheres containing flammable gases or vapours, or suspended dust. For example, air containing hydrogen gas or natural gas or gasoline vapor can be ignited by sparks produced by electrical apparatus. Examples of industrial facilities with hazardous areas are petrochemical refineries, chemical plants, grain elevators, and some kinds of coal mines.
Measures taken to prevent such explosions include:
Intrinsic safety, which is appar ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Power lines Image:Danger High voltage Keep out.JPG Transmission lines for electric power always use voltages in excess of 50 volts, so contact with or close approach to the line conductors presents a danger of electrocution. Contact with overhead wires is a frequent cause of injury or death. Metal ladders, farm equipment, boat masts, construction machinery, television antennas, and similar objects are frequently involved in fatal contact with overhead wires. Digging into a buried cable can also be dangerous to workers at the excavation site. Digging equ ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Sparks in air The dielectric breakdown strength of dry air at typical room temperature and sea-level pressure is about 33 kV per cm. [1] High voltages, i.e. strong electric fields produce violet-colored corona discharge in air, as well as visible sparks. Voltages below about 500-700 volts cannot produce easily visible sparks or glows in air at atmospheric pressure, so by this rule these voltages are 'low.' However, under conditions of low atmospheric pressure (such as in high-altitude aircraft), or in an environment of noble gas such as argon, neon, etc., ...
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| | | | High voltage - Toxic gases: Encyclopedia II - High voltage - Science classroom devices A high voltage is not necessarily dangerous. Physics demonstration devices such as Van de Graaff generators and Wimshurst machines can produce voltages approaching one million volts, yet at worst they deliver a brief sting. These devices have a limited amount of stored energy, so the current produced is low and usually for a short time. During the discharge, these machines apply high voltage to the body for only a millionth of a second or less. The discharge may involve extremely high power over very short periods, but in order to produce he ...
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