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There normally exists a vertical electric field in the atmosphere. A simple experiment can prove this. Assume that you have a conducting body, as in Figure 1a, held through an insulator. If there is a field E, there will be a polarization of charges, as indicated in the figure. Now let us connect the body and bring it into a Faraday cage attached to an electrometer (c). the instrument will show that the body is charged, as should be expected from the existence of E
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Iribarne, J.V., Cho, HR. (1980). Atmospheric Electricity. In: Atmospheric Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8952-8_6
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