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JimmyTheBones t1_j699a6q wrote

Reply to comment by OpenPlex in ELI5: why can't we use electricity to kill microorganisms in small amount of water ? by FreshT3ch

So imagine the horizontal distance, not the diagonal distance.

The front foot is the equivalent of the top of a river up a mountain, and the back foot is the equivalent of the estuary at sea level.

The human's horizontal foot distance is much less, so there is a much smaller difference between the potential from one foot to the other.

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