Should a Person Touch 200,000 Volts? A Van de Graaff generator experiment!

What happens if a person touches 200,000 volts? Should a person even be touching 200,000 volts in the first place? Find out in this live Van de Graaff generator experiment!

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A more complete liquid nitrogen show, shot during one of Jefferson Lab's Open Houses, can be seen here:

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