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If air and cloud were good conductors of electricity, do you think lightning could occur? Explain.

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If air and cloud were good conductors of electricity, lightning could not occur, because all the charges collected at the clouds will continuously transfer through air, i.e. charge will not accumulate on cloud and so, there will be no lightning.

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