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well, I'm not sure how separate they are in that situation.. and that is a lot of the problem is that the conduit of superheated gas and vaporized metal doesn't need to wait out 8.3ms for peak voltage when 50% of peak is still enough to maintain the arc. Also if the current was such that the heat generated can just wait out a few ms and still be maintained. That is why the instantaneous energy present is such a big deal, the breakers can kill the power but an explosion still happened.
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