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Question 17

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

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No. There won't be any lightning because charge separation cannot take place in conductors. So, all the charges collected at the clouds will be continuously transferred into the air, i.e., the charge will not accumulate in the cloud and so, there will be no lightning.


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