If air and cloud are good conductors of electricity then is it true that lighting could occur?

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The above statement is false.
If air and cloud are good conductors of electricity, then lightning will not occur. In conductors, there is no separation of charges. All the charges collected in the clouds will continuously transfer through the air. Therefore, clouds will not get any charges, so there will be no lightning. When the charges become very large, air will no longer be able to resist the flow of charges as it is not a good conductor of electricity. Therefore, there is an electric discharge in lightning.
Therefore, the correct statement is that if air and cloud are good conductors of electricity, lighting could not occur.

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