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To speak of the capacitance of a single sphere is misleading. It is the
capacitance of that sphere in combination with the infinite radius "sphere
at infinity". If the small sphere has charge Q the sphere at infinity has
charge -Q. After all, the radial field originating on Q must continue to
-Q.