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No two electric lines of intersect each other. Why ?

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The tangent at a point on the line of force gives the direction of electric field at the point.
If two lines of force intersect each other at a point , then electric field at that point will have two direction .This cannot be true.Hence two lines of force can never intersect each other .

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