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It is established that an electric current through a metallic conductor produces a magnetic field around it. Is there a similar magnetic field produced around a thin beam of moving (i) alpha particles, (ii) neutrons? Justify your answer.

When an electric current through a metallic conductor is established and produces a magnetic field around it. Alpha particles are positively charged particles, so magnetic field will be created along the path of the alpha particles but neutrons are the particles which have no charge on them. So, there will be no magnetic field along the path of neutrons.


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