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A capacitor is charged using a a battery and energy stored is U. After disconnecting the battery another uncharged capacitor of same capacitance is connected in parallel to the first capacitor. Then loss of energy is equal to

A

`U/2`

B

`U/4`

C

`U/8`

D

Zero

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