Can A Salt-Water Fog or Mist Conduct Electricity?

Subject: Can A Salt-Water Fog or Mist Conduct Electricity?

Date: Mon Nov 2 16:34:37 2009
Posted by Syed
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Chicago State/Province: IL Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1257204877.Ph

Message:


I know that salt water can conduct electricity. And I have read that a 
continuous stream of salt water can conduct electricity. But can a sufficiently
dense mist or fog of salt water also act as an electrical conductor? Is there a
simple experiment that I can do to prove this?

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