@article{ref1,
title="Extensive facial damage caused by a blast injury arising from a 6 volt lead accumulator",
journal="British journal of plastic surgery",
year="1999",
author="Singh, S. K. and Jain, P. and Sinha, J. K.",
volume="52",
number="2",
pages="149-151",
abstract="Low-voltage electrical injuries are relatively uncommon. Injury caused by flow of heavy current due to short-circuiting a low-voltage battery has not been described in the English literature. A 9-year-old boy connected two thin household electrical wires to the two terminals of a 6 volt (lead accumulator) battery and pressed the other two ends between his teeth. This resulted in a blast causing a compound comminuted fracture of the mandible and extensive tissue damage in the oral cavity. The low internal resistance of a lead accumulator (approximately 0.03 ohms) permits the flow of a heavy current (approximately 200 amps) when short-circuited. This instantaneously vaporises a minuscule portion of wire at approximately 2000 K resulting in a sudden rise of intraoral pressure to 30 kg cm-2 leading to tissue damage.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1226",
doi="10.1054/bjps.1998.3029",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjps.1998.3029"
}