when earthed a body has zero potential?what does that mean?...does it have a potential at a point not in contact with it

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When a body is earthened the charge on the shell flows back to the earth or if the +q is there, a charge of-q flows from the earth thereby neutralising the charge to zero. By potential formula we can see that potential is even zero..

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