during rain lightning is there.as water is a good conductor of electricity so why dont we get shocked?

Answer 1

Things being wet probably does effect it, but since EVERYTHING will be wet and the electricity is still trying to find the easiest way to earth it will still hit tall buildings and trees etc first... and the lightning 'jumps' from the clouds to the earth through ionised air... I doubt that a small gap in the rain drops will bother it too much...

Answer 2

In a technical sense, absolutely pure water, as in nothing else but a couple H and one O, will not conduct electricity. Why everyday water IS conductive is that fact that it is not pure. The ability for a medium to conduct electricity has to do with what was the term, valence electrons. There aren't any in a molecule of H2O, they're all tied up holding the oxygen atom to the hydrogen atoms. It is the impurities like dust or dirt or minerals etc that cause water to be conductive.
Now, rain does not let lightning just zap around the entire rainstorm because air is a very poor conductor of electricity. Ever take a look at high voltage power lines? Not the ones around your neighborhood, but the ones carrying it to your neighborhood from the power plant. The lines are only about a foot apart and they carry millions of volts, but since air does not conduct, they don't short out--unless some bird hits two lines at the same time. So, even though rain drops may have dust motes inside and therefore be conductive, they are spaced too far apart from each other to carry lightning in a spray of bolts to fill up the entire rainstorm volume at once.

Answer 3

Lightning seeks the easiest path to ground and will not strike you if you are not part of the path. You may become part of the path if you are standing in an open field or under a tree that is struck. When the lightning strikes the ground it spreads out in all directions forming fused sand (fulgurites) and sets up a potential difference (voltage difference) of perhaps several thousand volts to zero at infinity. One man standing near a strike was spared but the cow beside him was killed. Only a small amount of electricity went up his toes and down his heels but there was a greater voltage difference between the cows front and hind legs and the electricity also likely passed through the heart. If it is raining, the path through your body to ground may be a better conductor increasing your risk of injury; but you still must be in or near the path. If you are swimming in a lake struck by lightning you may become part of the path even at a distance from the strike. In the lake the water forms a continuous chemical- laden path not broken up as with pure rain drops. Always seek safe dry shelter during a thunder storm and use a portable telephone or cell phone rather than anything connected to house wiring, right?

Answer 4

If you look in to some films, I forget title, you may see somebody throwing an electric device in to a bath, in which some other body in. Then the person inside will get shocked, and may go to death. That is because the water molecules are in continuous arrangement. But in the rain there is a huge space b/n water particles as compared to them selves. All the three possible way of transmission electric will not be possible. But if we are within the circumference of the influence of the lightning, we will be shocked.

Answer 5

Water is not a good conductor of electricity. The free ions inside of most water are good conductors of electricity. Rain water is fairly pure because when water evaporates, the ions/salts are left behind. This leads to no net electric arcing through the water.

Answer 6

in case you complete the circuit between the lightning and the earth you'd be very fortunate to stay. So do not bypass into the sea for the time of a thunderstorm. If the fish tank is above floor factor and the stand is moist I somewhat imagine that the fish might want to get electrocuted inspite of the undeniable fact that the lightning might want to more effective in all probability strike a close-by progression. ARASAN i have heard this formerly and nevertheless do not recognize what's meant by technique of it. the customary (*) flow of electrons is from constructive to adverse. Volts factor out the"skill large difference." we'd want to imagine of "stress" if we were talking about water: and the water present day as such an rather good type of gallons a minute. If water from a water gun knocked you over, might want to you assert, 'i did not sense any stress, the water knocked me over?' NO stress, NO WATER. you won't be able to have one without the different. (*) present day actually flows from adverse to constructive: they got here across that out slightly late.

Answer 7

Most answers are good.

For us to receive a electrical shock, the electricity must pass thru us.

Water is a very bad conductor, it become a conductor only in the presence of certain imputities.

Answer 8

We will get electric shock if the lightening has to strike us. There are many incidences of such fatalities. During lightening electricity doesn't get disperesed throughout the atmosphere to strike everyone in rain

One more correction - pure water is a non-conductor. However, this doesn't alter my answer

Answer 9

Lightening is caused for the conflict between two oppositely charged clouds. so we can claim-there's only static current there.

and also rain comes in drops and you need continuity of flow.

adding, pure rain rain water is a bad conductor. if it could conduct current well, it'd be changed into H2 and O2 for electrolysis.

Answer 10

Thats because its "rain water" which has about no minerals or salt in it.
Salt water would be a good conductor, rain water isnt.