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When a body is earth connected, electrons from the earth flow into the body. This means the body was `….`

A

Unchanged

B

Charge positively

C

Charge negatively

D

an insulator

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B
When a positively charged body connected to earth, electrons flows from earth to body and body becomes neutral.
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