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A cell of negligible internal resistance is connected to a potentiometer wire and potential gradient is found. Keeping the length as constant, if the radius of potentiometer wire is increased four times, the potential gradient will become (no series resistance in primary)

A

4 times

B

2 times

C

half

D

constant

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D
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