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Heh. I was making tantalum carbide in school with a vacuum furnace that ran at 6V.

Electricity is strange...
At a youthful hangout party...a bunch of kids sat on a dented hood...which somehow connected down to the (12V+) battery terminal.
A five foot fountain of sparks with a small hole burning through the hood followed.

I think it only takes 1/10th amp to stop the human heart.

(and yet Tesla could repeatedly shoot lightning from his fingertips)
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