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Consider an isolated capacitor made of two parallel metallic plate separated by a distance d. the top plate has a surface change density of `-sigma`. A slab of metal of thickness `l lt d` is inserted between the plates. Not touching either plates. Upon insertion of the metal slab, the potential different between the plates

A

Increase

B

Decreases

C

Remains the same

D

Become zero

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