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Grade 11Electrostatics

What is the cause of conductivity of a atmosphere?

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13 Years agoGrade 11
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13 Years ago

Electric discharge. The phenomenon in which an insulator starts behaving as a conductor  due to the passage of large amount of chrge which breakjs down the molecules of air to create free electron thus making it a conductor.

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