Ultimately any material can conduct electricity if enough current is passed through it, including humans, but humans are actually very bad conductors compared to things like metal. As an example, if you have a AA battery and touch your fingers to both ends, no electricity flows through you, but if you touch a wire to either end and connect it to a bulb a significant amount of electricity flows. Even though humans can conduct very high amounts of electricity, it's much much much easier for electricity to flow through metal, so that's why we call humans insulators.
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hello! how are humans considered insulators?
we conduct electricity pretty well
Ultimately any material can conduct electricity if enough current is passed through it, including humans, but humans are actually very bad conductors compared to things like metal. As an example, if you have a AA battery and touch your fingers to both ends, no electricity flows through you, but if you touch a wire to either end and connect it to a bulb a significant amount of electricity flows. Even though humans can conduct very high amounts of electricity, it's much much much easier for electricity to flow through metal, so that's why we call humans insulators.