Why is it dangerous to touch a working electrical appliance with wet hands ?

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Water is a good conductor of electricity. A person with wet hands touching electrical appliances get a shock.So it is dangerous to touch an electric appliance with wet hands.

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A) This is because when we wash our hands with tap water which contains a lot of salt and ions this gets transmitted to our hands . When we touch the electrical appliances with wet hands ,the electric current passes from the appliance till our hands due to which we may get electric shock.

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