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A highly conducting sheet of aluminium foil of negligible thickness is placed between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor. The foil is parallel to the plates. If the capacitance before the insertion of foil was `10 mu F`, its value after the insertion of foil will be.

A

`20mu F`

B

`10mu F`

C

`5mu F`

D

zero

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