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The capacitance of earth, treating it as a spherical conductor of radius 6400 km is

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`C=4piepsilon_(0)R=(4pi)(8.85xx10^(-12)F//m)(6.4xx10^(6)m)`
`=7.1xx10^(-4)F`
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