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Why should we not touch lightning during thunderstorm ?

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Dear Student,
Resistance of human body is typically 1000 Ohms in wet condition.
A tall
thunderstorm cloud can hold over a 100 million volts of potential.
Thus by ohms law if we find the current it is in the order of lacks of ampere. And hence this will cause instant death of the person .And so we should not
touch lightning during thunderstorm
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