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A thunder cloud and the earth's surface may be regarded as a pair of charged parallel plates separated by a distance h and the capacitance of the system is c. When a flash of mean current 'I' occurs for a time duration 't' the electric field strenght between the cloud and earth reduced by

A

`("it")/(C)`

B

C it

C

`("it")/(Ch)`

D

`(C"it")/(h)`

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