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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR AIR TO BE AN INSULATOR?

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There are several electricity related phenomenon like lightning going on at higher altitudes in the atmosphere, if air would have been a good conductor, the whole atmosphere would get an electrically charged making life impossible on earth. Hence earth has to be an insulator.

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